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PostPosted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 5:11 am 
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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?


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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?

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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?


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


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what the fuck is the internet?!

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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.

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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.

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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.


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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.


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

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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.

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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?


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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.


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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.

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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.


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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?

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