monkjerry@sh.itjust.works to Comic Strips@lemmy.world · 8 months agoThe Good Old Dayssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square125fedilinkarrow-up1835arrow-down175
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minus-squareKevonLooney@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoThe 70s? The 60s? Before everything was ruined by ASCII adding lowercase letters?
minus-squareMachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoBack when FTW meant Fuck The World
minus-squarePatches@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months ago Back when FTW meant Fuck The World And FTFY meant Fuck This. Fuck You.
minus-squareMachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoI thankfully wasn’t aware there’s an alternative interpretation for that one. I’ll give the modern interpretation of FTW - insofar as I can tell it sprung up organically, not as some intentional “reclaiming” of negative concepts/language.
The 70s? The 60s? Before everything was ruined by ASCII adding lowercase letters?
EBCDIC FTW!!!
Back when FTW meant Fuck The World
And FTFY meant Fuck This. Fuck You.
I thankfully wasn’t aware there’s an alternative interpretation for that one. I’ll give the modern interpretation of FTW - insofar as I can tell it sprung up organically, not as some intentional “reclaiming” of negative concepts/language.