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29 March 2007

If there was a landmark guide to the internet would goatse be Mount Rushmore? Trying to come up with internet "landmarks" and their real world parallels.→[More:] If there are enough to make a little humorous illustrated guide, i may be inclined to make it.
Help?

post by: ethylene at: 13:36 | 22 comments

Myspace would be New Jersey.

posted by drezdn 29 March | 13:40

Goatse would be the Grand Canyon.

posted by Prospero 29 March | 13:40

goatse would be wall drug.

posted by drezdn 29 March | 13:40

Prospero is right.

posted by drezdn 29 March | 13:41

The Drudge Report would be Old Faithful. It spews forth shit roughly once an hour.

posted by drezdn 29 March | 13:42

Tubgirl would be Old Faithful, drezdn.

posted by jonmc 29 March | 13:43

Well played, jonmc, well played.

Adds jonmc to "the list"

posted by drezdn 29 March | 13:45

Sublime Directory would be Vegas: Sin City. Fark would be Sturgis during Bike Week. Flickr would be the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. The wayback Machine would be the Museum Of Natural History.

posted by jonmc 29 March | 13:52

Goatse can't really be the Grand Canyon because it's definitely man made and not so much the handicap accessible tourist attraction people want to return to over and over.
It does have the souvenirs, though.

posted by ethylene 29 March | 14:12

Postsecret would be the bathroom wall of a hipster coffee shop.

Cuteoverload would be a humane society.

posted by drezdn 29 March | 14:13

a kitten factory.

posted by drezdn 29 March | 14:14

Various personal ad sites would be various kinds of bars (except for eHarmony, which would be a very frightening kind of storefront church).

posted by box 29 March | 14:18

The p2p networks would be Dodge City. Hotornot would be Atlantic City during the Miss America pageant. MeFi would be Parris Island during basic training.

posted by jonmc 29 March | 14:22

You Americans. All of your real world landmarks are American. What's the internet version of the Great Pyramids? The Eiffel Tower? Big Ben? Hmm?

I'm really just bugging ya.

posted by richat 29 March | 15:02

i wish people could think of a list of internet landmarks for a start.
Oh well. Que sera.
This all started because i made some joke last night about an internet travel book with goatse as a landmark like Mount Rushmore. Then someone used the word goatse and i was surprised what they knew about goatse. It turned out they didn't and just thought it was a funny word. Then i had the perennial task of explaining what goatse was.
That look on people's faces, they never get it back, that wide eyed confusion.
My goatse explanation is getting pared down nicely. i've gotten rid of almost all the "um well"s and "it's kinda"s.

posted by ethylene 29 March | 15:15

The Met museum isn't really a good match for Flickr because Flickr is a lot more democratic. It would be like this really cool art gallery with lots of individual cafes where people intently discuss their work - something that doesn't exist in real life yet.

Soulseek would be the exclusive hipster record store where people laugh in your face if you ask where the Ted Nugent is.

posted by matildaben 29 March | 15:19

That's what Soulseek was a few years ago, but now it's more like a record swap meet or something. Now Pitchfork, on the other hand...

posted by box 29 March | 15:32

Soulseek would be the exclusive hipster record store where people laugh in your face if you ask where the Ted Nugent is.

Nah, Soulseek's relatively attitude free. It's more like one of those decades-old institution type places where vinyl's arranged all helter-skelter waiting to be mined and plundered. (and I've found some great rare Nuge on there-Ted live with Molly Hatchet covering Mississippi Queen)

IMDB would be some OCD old-guys attic full of TV Guides and Photplays. Archie McPhee would be a tag sale on the Moon.

Pitchfork would be the innermost ring of hell.

posted by jonmc 29 March | 15:34

I'm really just bugging ya.

Foreigners DO bug the hell out of us, richat.

What country are you in, again? (Starts dialing the Pentagon.)

posted by danf 29 March | 15:52

Yikes! I'm in, um, New Zealand. Yeah, that's it.

posted by richat 29 March | 18:05

This should be goatse.

posted by urbanwhaleshark 29 March | 18:14

Metafilter would be New Zealand - it's full of a sample of all the wonders of the world, green (countryside), blue (lakes) and grey (sky) dominate, the people are either friendly as hell or hate you with a passion and it feels like home to everyone who hangs out there for any time.

posted by dg 29 March | 18:39

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