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Nostalgia for Time Cube era of internet weirdness
Original: Ever yearn for a time when the craziest thing on the internet was Timecube? # TimeCube # crazy # internet
Time Cube, Gene Ray's infamous 1990s website claiming all of time is cubic, is being remembered as a byword for a simpler internet age. People are expressing nostalgia for when the most unhinged content online was one man's eccentric manifesto, contrasting it with today's flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and AI-generated nonsense across the web.
Why now: People are contrasting the internet's early eccentric content with today's far more overwhelming misinformation landscape.
Rank over time, top of the chart is #1. 6 snapshots from 3 d ago to 3 d ago.
Evidence
- Ever yearn for a time when the craziest thing on the internet was Timecube? # TimeCube # crazy # internet · cazabon@mindly.social · 2
API: https://socialmediatrends-api.osmike.com/v1/trends/4930925