FARK.com: (6853930) Internet trolls: your shtick is over 100 years old. U mad?

		Internet trolls: your shtick is over 100 years old. U mad? (newscientist.com)		48
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doglover

2011-12-31 09:11:18 PM

Subby, the Greeks have stories about their people doing the same stupid crap.

Trolling is old as written history, at least. U mad bro?

2wolves

2011-12-31 09:17:07 PM

Two days ago. Better HL.

Meh.

PainInTheASP

2011-12-31 09:19:06 PM

-- .- .-. -.-. --- -. .. / .. --.. / .- / ..-. .- --. / --- -- --. .-- - ..-. -... -... --.- !!!

Bucky Katt

2011-12-31 10:24:16 PM

humanity is a failed mutation

GAT_00

2011-12-31 10:56:50 PM

There was trolling carved by Vikings into the walls of pubs, according to a link a few weeks ago here.

BarbadoSlim

2012-01-01 12:09:35 AM

Who mad?

gozar_the_destroyer

2012-01-01 12:11:44 AM

PainInTheASP: -- .- .-. -.-. --- -. .. / .. --.. / .- / ..-. .- --. / --- -- --. .-- - ..-. -... -... --.-

.-.. --- .-..!

NetOwl

2012-01-01 12:12:01 AM

Everyone knows our universe was created by twelve internet trollsplaying SGRUB.

doglover

2012-01-01 12:15:43 AM

Diogenes, while also a fark handle, was an EPIC troll.

Zeno: Blah blah blah thus motion is impossible.
Diogenes: *gets up and walks away*

Mentat

2012-01-01 12:16:49 AM

It's a little known fact that the paintings of lumbering beasts at the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc caves were actually pictures of Thag Blunderbus' mom.

MrEricSir

2012-01-01 12:18:45 AM

That's not trolling, subby -- that's hacking.

Perhaps the most remarkable thing about this story is the motive for hacking was to expose a security problem, which is still a common motive over 100 years later.

Mentat

2012-01-01 12:19:32 AM

doglover: Diogenes, while also a fark handle, was an EPIC troll.

Zeno: Blah blah blah thus motion is impossible.
Diogenes: *gets up and walks away*

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Gordon Bennett

2012-01-01 12:24:59 AM

doglover: Subby, the Greeks have stories about their people doing the same stupid crap.

Trolling is old as written history, at least. U mad bro?

I was thinking of Martin Luther's epic troll of the Catholic Church in 1517.

RedPhoenix122

2012-01-01 12:33:59 AM

gozar_the_destroyer: PainInTheASP: -- .- .-. -.-. --- -. .. / .. --.. / .- / ..-. .- --. / --- -- --. .-- - ..-. -... -... --.-

.-.. --- .-..!

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croesius

2012-01-01 12:37:38 AM

approves.

culebra

2012-01-01 12:41:28 AM

Bullshiat. It's a well known fact that existence itself is the greatest troll of all, and therefore the only one that really matters. Everything else is just apes flattering the universe through imitation.

gozar_the_destroyer

2012-01-01 01:06:20 AM

RedPhoenix122: gozar_the_destroyer: PainInTheASP: -- .- .-. -.-. --- -. .. / .. --.. / .- / ..-. .- --. / --- -- --. .-- - ..-. -... -... --.-

.-.. --- .-..!

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Smeggy Smurf

2012-01-01 01:18:52 AM

gozar_the_destroyer: RedPhoenix122: gozar_the_destroyer: PainInTheASP: -- .- .-. -.-. --- -. .. / .. --.. / .- / ..-. .- --. / --- -- --. .-- - ..-. -... -... --.-

.-.. --- .-..!

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There's no call for that kind of language here!

Aye Carumba

2012-01-01 01:27:41 AM

.... .- .--. .--. -.-- -. . .-- -.-- . .- .-.

culebra

2012-01-01 01:47:18 AM

Huck And Molly Ziegler

2012-01-01 02:48:48 AM

A fine and interesting contribution. Thanks, submitter, and Happy 2012.

aspAddict

2012-01-01 02:58:55 AM

I was dating a girl in the late 90's whose father worked for a government IT department. We were sitting around talking shop one day when he told me, "...and the fascinating thing about dial up networking - and all networking in general - is that it's just sped up Morse code. All the 1's and 0's are just audible dots and dashes. If you slowed it down and wrote out the beeps and hisses as dots and dashes, you would see actual Morse code."

Yes, he was serious.

CygnusDarius

2012-01-01 03:13:28 AM

Weren't the grafitti on Pompeii a proto-internet?.

iq_in_binary

2012-01-01 04:10:26 AM

Aye Carumba: .... .- .--. .--. -.-- -. . .-- -.-- . .- .-.

And I've just wasted the last 2 hours of my life learning Morse Code.

Thanks, asshole.

calufrax

2012-01-01 04:42:34 AM

... . -- .--. .-. .. -. .. ..--..

Gunny Walker

2012-01-01 05:09:22 AM

-... --- --- -... .. . ...

rocky_howard

2012-01-01 05:53:41 AM

aspAddict: I was dating a girl in the late 90's whose father worked for a government IT department. We were sitting around talking shop one day when he told me, "...and the fascinating thing about dial up networking - and all networking in general - is that it's just sped up Morse code. All the 1's and 0's are just audible dots and dashes. If you slowed it down and wrote out the beeps and hisses as dots and dashes, you would see actual Morse code."

Yes, he was serious.

Well...it's true, so?

Doctor Jan Itor

2012-01-01 06:42:36 AM

Do you have any cave paintings of your mom?

/Want some?

RedPhoenix122

2012-01-01 07:58:44 AM

66dude

2012-01-01 08:14:47 AM

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RedPhoenix122

2012-01-01 09:41:34 AM

rocky_howard: aspAddict: I was dating a girl in the late 90's whose father worked for a government IT department. We were sitting around talking shop one day when he told me, "...and the fascinating thing about dial up networking - and all networking in general - is that it's just sped up Morse code. All the 1's and 0's are just audible dots and dashes. If you slowed it down and wrote out the beeps and hisses as dots and dashes, you would see actual Morse code."

Yes, he was serious.

Well...it's true, so?

Only in the most BASIC sense.

Fail in Human Form

2012-01-01 09:45:09 AM

Bucky Katt: humanity is a failed mutation

You have my whole hearted agreement and the continued existance of some of us, due to the lack of a truly "free will" in a deterministic universe, is proof that a kind God is simply the creation of our imaginations.

HotIgneous Intruder

2012-01-01 09:45:39 AM

People are bastarts.

andrewagill

2012-01-01 10:00:27 AM

doglover: Diogenes, while also a fark handle, was an EPIC troll.

Zeno: Blah blah blah thus motion is impossible.
Diogenes: *gets up and walks away*

Zeno wasn't too bad of a troll, himself.

jso2897

2012-01-01 10:32:37 AM

"Maskelyne countered that Fleming should focus on the facts. "I would remind Professor Fleming that abuse is no argument," he replied."
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PewterPirate55

2012-01-01 10:49:58 AM

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Suede head

2012-01-01 10:52:01 AM

Nevil Maskelyne? I imagine he looked and sounded like Dr Orpheus from Venture Bros. with a name like that.

His son was Jasper Maskelyne, also a stage magician. In WWII he helped disguise Brtish trucks as tanks and tanks as trucks to fool German recce planesthat an offensive was coming so they concentrated on the wrong sector. He did all sorts of other stuff, inclusing supposedly making the Suez Canal "disappear" to enemy aircraft.

RedPhoenix122

2012-01-01 11:07:12 AM

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Arkanaut

2012-01-01 11:35:31 AM

Nevil Maskelyne wwebsite as on the Internet when you were a sperm in your daddys balls and before it was the internet

RedPhoenix122

2012-01-01 11:44:49 AM

Arkanaut: Nevil Maskelyne wwebsite as on the Internet when you were a sperm in your daddys balls and before it was the internet

The telegraph is not a dump truck, it's a series of tubes.

AcneVulgaris

2012-01-01 01:54:10 PM

From the 70's:

He who writes on shiathouse walls
rolls his shiat in little balls
he who reads these words of wit
eats these little balls of shiat

Gunny Walker

2012-01-01 04:48:48 PM

qlenfg

2012-01-01 09:25:09 PM

I'm reading a book on Marconi right now, so I'm getting a kick out of this.

LemSkroob

2012-01-02 01:14:37 AM

But, as author Sungook Hong relates in the book Wireless, his ambitions were frustrated by Marconi's broad patents, leaving him embittered towards the Italian.

And thus was born the patent troll.

RedPhoenix122

2012-01-02 02:47:48 AM

LemSkroob: And thus was born the patent troll.

Wonder if I can patent the ability to patent troll, and go meta on all these people that want to squeeze out competition instead of making a better product.

DeathByGeekSquad

2012-01-02 02:51:32 AM

Subby, trolls don't use 'umad', 4chan failures do.

4channers != trolls
4channers = failures

sprawl15

2012-01-02 03:04:14 AM

andrewagill: doglover: Diogenes, while also a fark handle, was an EPIC troll.

Zeno: Blah blah blah thus motion is impossible.
Diogenes: *gets up and walks away*

Zeno wasn't too bad of a troll, himself.

He pretty much invented troll math.

johnnygew

2012-01-02 08:24:29 AM

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