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Josh "cortex" Millard

MetaFilter turned 24 years old yesterday! Literal 20th century cultural icon. Here's an incomprehensible birthday thread full of riffing:

metafilter.com/199973/Happy-bi

And more thoughtful and coherent thread of memories and gratitude from folks on the site:

metatalk.metafilter.com/26330/

15 Jul 2023 at 15:36 | Open on mastodon.social
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Josh "cortex" Millard

The site has been such a uniquely big part of my life, for almost that entire stretch, that i find myself sort of overwhelmed with a complicated mix of feelings when the big day rolls around, but the ultimate throughline there is that I'm grateful for it and for all the people it's brought into my life, and glad as fuck that it's plowing on into the future, year by year and day by day. There's no where else quite like it, and we need more places like it on the internet.

15 Jul 2023 at 15:44 | Open on mastodon.social
Mark Saltveit

@joshmillard
I still remember my first comment, and getting ripped apart by quonsar who did not approve of my presence. That was about 20 years ago.

Now like Jessamyn I'm working in a library in Vermont.

15 Jul 2023 at 15:49 | Open on mastodonapp.uk
Woods By The Sea

@joshmillard Without Metafilter there would have been no room for my "coup" joke.

15 Jul 2023 at 16:07 | Open on fosstodon.org
Geoffrey Adams

@joshmillard I feel a little bittersweet at the anniversary. It happens to line up with me realizing I need to leave the site for my own wellbeing, at least for a while. I've had to take short breaks before, but this time feels different; I'm certainly not the first to have this experience, nor will I be the last. It's been my home on the Internet for at least a decade, even before I paid my $5, and I already miss spending time there.

But I remain optimistic that MetaFilter will trundling along, and I hope that in some months or years both I and it will be in a better place for me to return. It's a special place, and I agree completely: we need more places like it on the Internet.

@joshmillard I feel a little bittersweet at the anniversary. It happens to line up with me realizing I need to leave the site for my own wellbeing, at least for a while. I've had to take short breaks before, but this time feels different; I'm certainly not the first to have this experience, nor will I be the last. It's been my home on the Internet for at least a decade, even before I paid my $5, and I already miss spending time there.

15 Jul 2023 at 16:33 | Open on mefi.social
Bela Lugosi's Dad

@joshmillard 24?! Metafilter needs to stop mooching off its parents, move out and get a real job 👀

15 Jul 2023 at 21:56 | Open on aus.social
James Young

@joshmillard I just now realized maybe I shoulda done something over here, whoops

16 Jul 2023 at 4:49 | Open on mefi.social
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