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washing machine · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:11 am

where exactly did this quote begin? i was watching the x-files episode with the lone gunmens' backstory the other day, and a woman asked byers about a url, saying "doesn't this have something to do with computers? the internet?". now, this episode aired in '97, and the line had the feeling of being an inside joke even then. as long as there have been computers, have people been asking if things had to do with them? is there even a solid origin for the joke?

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:12 am

washing machine wrote:

where exactly did this quote begin? i was watching the x-files episode with the lone gunmens' backstory the other day, and a woman asked byers about a url, saying "doesn't this have something to do with computers? the internet?". now, this episode aired in '97, and the line had the feeling of being an inside joke even then. as long as there have been computers, have people been asking if things had to do with them? is there even a solid origin for the joke?

Are you fucking serious?

washing machine · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:12 am

cutuphalfdead wrote:

washing machine wrote:

where exactly did this quote begin? i was watching the x-files episode with the lone gunmens' backstory the other day, and a woman asked byers about a url, saying "doesn't this have something to do with computers? the internet?". now, this episode aired in '97, and the line had the feeling of being an inside joke even then. as long as there have been computers, have people been asking if things had to do with them? is there even a solid origin for the joke?

Are you fucking serious?

this time, yes. i really would like an answer. how do i even begin to google this?

tryinmorning · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:12 am

I'm pretty sure it has something to do with computers second guessing themselves.

Mecca · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:14 am

what the fuck is the internet?!

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:16 am

It's a place where people come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with each other.

Mecca · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:17 am

when borat came out i called people saying "niceeee" and "high five" a lot. As soon as the movie ended I was walking through the lobby and I saw it all forming right before my eyes.

tryinmorning · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:18 am

I really wish I could help washing machine here but this is too much.

BadRadio16 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:20 am

mecca2687 wrote:

when borat came out i called people saying "niceeee" and "high five" a lot. As soon as the movie ended I was walking through the lobby and I saw it all forming right before my eyes.

The same thing happened after Napoleon Dynamite and Superbad. The one-liners started spreading like cancer.

invention · **Joined:** Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:34 am **Posts:** 12029

we should have an inquiry

washing machine · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:22 am

if you guys are re-using an old internet joke again and again without ever questioning it's genesis, that's fine. but if you know where this joke came from, i'd like to know. just to satisfy my own curiosity. and to maybe understand the humor a little bit better.

tryinmorning · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:25 am

washing machine wrote:

if you guys are re-using an old internet joke again and again without ever questioning it's genesis, that's fine. but if you know where this joke came from, i'd like to know. just to satisfy my own curiosity. and to maybe understand the humor a little bit better.

you do realise this is going to be nearly impossible to find out? You would have better luck trying to find out the first person that started the cheeseburger kitty pics, or the originator of the aids in the pool meme.

Mecca · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:25 am

its no surprise that something from the internet came from the x-files and vice versa

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:26 am

washing machine wrote:

if you guys are re-using an old internet joke again and again without ever questioning it's genesis, that's fine. but if you know where this joke came from, i'd like to know. just to satisfy my own curiosity. and to maybe understand the humor a little bit better.

I don't think what you described in your initial post was so much a joke as much as it was just a reference to a growing culture.

washing machine · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:28 am

tryinmorning wrote:

washing machine wrote:

if you guys are re-using an old internet joke again and again without ever questioning it's genesis, that's fine. but if you know where this joke came from, i'd like to know. just to satisfy my own curiosity. and to maybe understand the humor a little bit better.

you do realise this is going to be nearly impossible to find out? You would have better luck trying to find out the first person that started the cheeseburger kitty pics, or the originator of the aids in the pool meme.

it's just, i dearly need to know why it is so funny and has endured for so long. i understand that it is a sly little in-joke on the ineptness of "newbies", but is that it? is there more? what is so damn funny about suggesting that something might have something to do with computers?

tryinmorning · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:28 am

cutuphalfdead wrote:

washing machine wrote:

if you guys are re-using an old internet joke again and again without ever questioning it's genesis, that's fine. but if you know where this joke came from, i'd like to know. just to satisfy my own curiosity. and to maybe understand the humor a little bit better.

I don't think what you described in your initial post was so much a joke as much as it was just a reference to a growing culture.

I don't know chud, I'm starting to second guess this.

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:29 am

washing machine wrote:

tryinmorning wrote:

washing machine wrote:

if you guys are re-using an old internet joke again and again without ever questioning it's genesis, that's fine. but if you know where this joke came from, i'd like to know. just to satisfy my own curiosity. and to maybe understand the humor a little bit better.

you do realise this is going to be nearly impossible to find out? You would have better luck trying to find out the first person that started the cheeseburger kitty pics, or the originator of the aids in the pool meme.

it's just, i dearly need to know why it is so funny and has endured for so long. i understand that it is a sly little in-joke on the ineptness of "newbies", but is that it? is there more? what is so damn funny about suggesting that something might have something to do with computers?

You are reading far too deep into it my man. Computers and the internet were still a new and exciting thing in 1997, that's why that line was there. It wasn't a joke, just a display that they were being on the cutting edge.

tryinmorning · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:29 am

washing machine wrote:

tryinmorning wrote:

washing machine wrote:

if you guys are re-using an old internet joke again and again without ever questioning it's genesis, that's fine. but if you know where this joke came from, i'd like to know. just to satisfy my own curiosity. and to maybe understand the humor a little bit better.

you do realise this is going to be nearly impossible to find out? You would have better luck trying to find out the first person that started the cheeseburger kitty pics, or the originator of the aids in the pool meme.

it's just, i dearly need to know why it is so funny and has endured for so long. i understand that it is a sly little in-joke on the ineptness of "newbies", but is that it? is there more? what is so damn funny about suggesting that something might have something to do with computers?

it's a meme not a joke.

cutuphalfdead · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:29 am

tryinmorning wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

washing machine wrote:

if you guys are re-using an old internet joke again and again without ever questioning it's genesis, that's fine. but if you know where this joke came from, i'd like to know. just to satisfy my own curiosity. and to maybe understand the humor a little bit better.

I don't think what you described in your initial post was so much a joke as much as it was just a reference to a growing culture.

I don't know chud, I'm starting to second guess this.

Where's that rimshot sound effect when I need it?

washing machine · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:31 am

a meme?

"does this have something to do with computers?"

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