# As a Zoomer I find old chat boards fascinating

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-zoomer-i-find-old-chat-boards-fascinating/982742>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 16, 2023, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-zoomer-i-find-old-chat-boards-fascinating/982742 "2023-04-16T15:19:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-zoomer-i-find-old-chat-boards-fascinating/982742/21 "2023-04-17T02:36:13Z")

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Crap. Does anyone remember the initiation ritual? It’s been so long since we’ve had a young’n that I can’t recall the proper incantations. I’m pretty sure we need a goat and an octopus and someone who speaks ancient Sumerian.

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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-zoomer-i-find-old-chat-boards-fascinating/982742/22 "2023-04-17T04:07:23Z")

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I think it was a squid, not an octopus. I think that’s because squid live longer.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-zoomer-i-find-old-chat-boards-fascinating/982742/23 "2023-04-17T04:30:39Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Do the rats come with ketchup?

Yes. _And_ [a stick](https://www.discworldemporium.com/product/rat-onna-stick/).

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**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-zoomer-i-find-old-chat-boards-fascinating/982742/24 "2023-04-17T11:38:01Z")

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> [@Smapti](#):
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> Crap. Does anyone remember the initiation ritual?

Fetch the internapult!

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Welcome, dm03, to the Dope! I appreciate your nostalgia! Memory and history are greatly valuable, but only if we like them enough to look and to think.

I’ve done a lot with [www.historicaerials.com](http://www.historicaerials.com) and enjoy seeing things I remember (though from a new angle) and the things they were before I remember them, and what new places I discover were too.

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**Author:** ![Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Swords\_to\_Plowshares](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swords_to_Plowshares)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2023, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/as-a-zoomer-i-find-old-chat-boards-fascinating/982742/25 "2023-04-17T19:31:26Z")

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Welcome. As a millennial, the only thing that makes me feel old is injuries and zoomers calling early 2000s stuff ‘retro’

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