Copypasta Lore
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- Опубліковано 11 бер 2022
- Everybody knows copypasta. Everybody uses copypasta. But not everyone knows how exactly copypasta became a thing in the first place; in this mini episode, I'll be discussing the little bit of internet history behind a phenomenon thats become nearly universal.
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Corrections:
1. I conflate chain emails and advance fee scams at some point in the video, to clarify these are not the same thing although they often contained similar content.
Hey everybody, so last episode I told you about the Bone Wars, a bizarre 30-year conflict between two very competitive paleontologists to dig up more bones that eventually led both of them to their graves. In many ways, the bone wars were a product of their time. Made possible by the slow and unreliable transportation and communication of the 19th century. It's unclear if something like that could have happened in the modern era with the advent of things like the internet. In fact, there's a lot of things born from the internet in just a few decades that pretty much no one could have predicted in the past. Notable among these is the idea of copypasta. In case you've been living under a rock or a similar object for the past few years, copypasta is essentially the act of copy and pasting a usually large, and usually humorous string of text in a variety of places across the internet, for a variety of reasons. It's yet another one of those weird little internet concepts that we really just do take for granted, simply because it's been around for what is in internet terms, a pretty long time. But something you might not know, nor expect is the fact that in order for copypasta as we know it to truly be conceptualized and popularized in the world wide web, some pretty major technologies and prototypes of modern internet phenomena had to first blaze the trail. In this KRB Mini episode, let's take a look at copypasta lore.
Computers have been around for a long, long, long, time. Probably a bit longer than many people realize, but a lot of the things we take for granted in our computer systems are relative newcomers to the computing scene. Some of the very first true computers, besides those used for mathematics and science, were used as word processors, and business machines. With computer scienctists attempting to automate many of the functions that were, at that point, still done entirely by hand. Bookkeeping, copying documents, sending mail, and so on were all considered at the time to be something pretty revolutionary for computer systems, as weird as it may seem now. Around the 60s and 70s, the go-to for a computer's public interface was a text-based system, where users punched in their commands and the computers did the work. What we consider computer graphics today didn't really exist at this point, and user-friendliness wasn't even on the table. But it's important to understand that in this era, computers were almost entirely relegated to use by scientific professionals, researchers, and colleges. Making something the average consumer would use wasn't really the goal, and even basic functions like editing text or copy and pasting were done in a strangely arcane fashion. Usually involving a mode system, in which a user would have to change a computer's mode in order to perform different operations with the same commands. But in the early 1970s a man named Larry Tesler set out to change this. To put it bluntly, larry tesler hated modes. They were the standard at the time, but Tesler saw a future in which personal computers could be found in the homes of anyone imaginable, and he believed that modes, along with text-based interfaces as a whole were just too impractical for this to become a reality. And so, in 1973 Tesler joined a team at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center to contribute work on the Xerox Alto, a personal computer that was in many ways an entire decade ahead of it's time. The alto was the first major computer system to feature a graphical user interface, where the user could actually see visual representations of the tasks that they were performing, as opposed to just lines of text on a screen. Tesler contributed to the development of the Alto, most notably acting as a head designer for a word processor called Gypsy. The program was in many ways as revoloutionary as the Alto itself, being the first text editing program to make use of a GUI and a mouse. But of most interest to us is a certain feature implemented in the program around 1974. Tesler, along with another computer scientist named Timothy Mott implemented a system through which a user could select text using the cursor, enter a command that stored the text data to a temporary memory location, and then place the text somewhere else with another command. This was the very first copy and paste, and from here, it could only go up.
1975 saw the release of Tesler and Mott's word processor, while GUI's were slow to catch on, what would become the single most essential copypasta tool was now out in the open. From a technical standpoint, we were already there. From a cultural standpoint, not so much. Like I said before, computer users at this time were a very specific and very specialized group of people that use computers almost entirely for work purposes. While copy and pasting existed, it's not like anyone was going to go around using it to slap paragraphs of text in places they didn't belong. No, to get there we still have a bit of work to do. Now if you look at it a certain way, copypasta could very well have started with a single bizarre incident in the Spring of 1978. A mainframe known as the Dex System 2020 had just been unveiled by the Digital Equipment Corporation, which apparently was something you could just name your company in 1978. Eager to advertise and demonstrate the new product, a marketeer named Gary Thuerk decided to target potential customers by sending out a mass promotion over ARPANET, which for those who don't know is essentially an early computer network developed by Darpa. By hand, Thuerk and another co-worker punched in 400 ARPANET addresses from an address book and at 12:33 eastern daylight time, on May 3rd, send out an invitation for any message recipients to view a demonstration of the Dex System 2020. Now this probably doesn't seem like a big deal but you have to realize that at this point in time there were estimated to be about 2600 ARPANET users in the entire world. Theurk had just sent what was essentially the first instance of spam to about 15% of everyone online that year. In modern terms, that would be the equivalent of messaging about 525,000,000 people all at once.
So now we've established that texts could not only be copy and pasted with computer systems, but also duplicated endlessly over computer networks for any number of purposes. But we've still got a way to go. Copy and paste along with GUIs which were by necessity somewhat linked became far more mainstream in the early 80s, with systems like the Apple Lisa, and other personal computers that employed both of them. And just as tesler predicted, personal computers began to enter the homes of everyday individuals, meaning that Theurk's accidentaly spam email wasn't likely to be a one-off event. As the 90s began to roll around we saw the rise of BBS and USENET forums, where computer users, now numbering in the tens of thousands, could gather to communicate, and most importantly, copy and paste. This was when the idea of spam began to be fully realized. The term itself is believed to have originated from a Monty Python bit where the word "Spam" is repeated incessantly. The practice of spamming became commonplace on these early boards and forums, and it was many user's first experience with the idea of copying, pasting, and sending random text over and over again, usually for the purpose of annoying someone. And alongside this, another, more long-form style of spam was beginning to circulate as well. The mid 90s saw an uptick in chain-emails. They would promise fame and fortune if circulated, or curses if left alone. One of the most famous among these were the infamous advance fee, or 419 scams. Most notably, the Nigerian Prince Scam. And these emails all share the common trait of having long, often unintentionally humorous strings of text that one was expected to share.
By the time the early 2000s rolled around, all of this was considered commonplace, and it's entirely likely that people were already beginning to adopt the beginnings of copypasta, but it wouldn't be until the mid-200s that someone actually put a name to it. It's believed by many that the term copypasta itself remerged from the maelstrom of 4chan or another contemporary message board around the dark age of 2006. While it's exact internet origins are unclear, it's linguistic origins are not. Copy and paste became copy paste, and copy paste became copypasta. Surprisingly simple. The terminology was solidified on April 20th of that year, when someone posted the definition to the illustrious halls of Urban Dictionary, and the concept began to become more fleshed out. A natural evolution of chain emails, copy pasting, and some aspects of spam, copypasta in it's modern form generally just consisted of a user finding some strange or humorous block of text that they decided to share in various places across the early internet A number of early copypastas were single strings, usually some type of nonsensical rambling or inside joke that would be shared on message boards and social media sites and put into people's bios and signatures and so on. Early examples of this included "mudkipz", and, "has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?". And as time wore on, they began to grow more complex.
Around 2007, a sort of splinter group was formed from the general idea of copypasta. Creepypasta was a deriviation of the main idea in which the content of the copypasta was horror themed, as opposed to comedic. Before a centralized hub was formed for creepypasta, a number of shorter ones were spread through simple copy and pasting, as internet users decided to share the scary story someone sent them the other day on MySpace. The idea helped to further popularize copypasta as a whole.
The Navy Seals copypasta will always stick with me. Back when I began properly using social media somebody replied to me with a Spanish version of it and 12 year old me was absolutely scared shitless that I was going to get wiped off the face of the Earth by a top sniper trained in gorilla warfare. Good times.
Would you believe me if I told you I wrote that?
@@NecoJesusprobably not
@@bishoptrees Yeah, I figured. There's literally no way I can prove it but I am, in fact, that guy.
@@NecoJesus then, for the purposes of conversation, well done on penning one of the finest chunks of text to ever bless this swirling cesspool. Do you get a little tingle every time you see it pop up? Or a familiar feeling these days as it's less common, like seeing an old friend? Or are you sick of it?
@@bishoptrees mostly embarrassment but also some pride at being one of the most iconic copypastas of all time
You forgot the best part of the story of the first spam email, which is that arpanet was a military system. The screwup of sending the first spam email was so bad that the air force major in charge of arpanet yelled at his boss to tell him not to let anything like that happen on his watch again. The main perpetrator calls himself the father of e-marketing to this day.
imagine if the entire script for this episode was made into a copypasta
I JUST DID THAT
@@carreb Heh, can confirm. Lots of respect to you, man.
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a few weeks ago i visited r/telescopes which is, as the name implies, FULL of oldheads. the way they had their “no copypastas” rule written down at the time was almost a direct copy from a now defunct hobby board, closed in 2004.
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@@ganondalf8090 Vinesauce Joel.
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My favorite is probably the first chapter of My Immortal. Also quite fond of the "I'm weird. I'm a weirdo." monologue from Riverdale.
You guys ever notice the subliminal clicking and ticking noises in the background of KRBs most recent videos? Ever 3 minutes or so i can hear a distinct string of clicks that almost sounds like morse or some other cypher. They can be clearly heard at 3:43 7:15 and 9:37.... i bet this could be linked to the Zaganini Mindlink... its all so obvious when you open your eyes....
I have tinnitus and cant hear it can you write it down?
Ok it sound like this: tick tick tick tick click click tick click tick tick click click click click tick tick click tick click
@@Wizard_635 so like this?....//.//....//./.
He's trying to use clicking to get us to subscribe
@@-fragile- it's nothing, these are just intentional "embellishment" noises added in by the creator to make what's happening on screen seem more engaging. they're just very subtle bloops, beeps and other sound effects that happen in synch with what's going on in the video. The one at 3:43 is just 3 short sounds that happen in time with G. U. I. appearing on screen. There's no deeper meaning here.
3:24 average VIM hater
OK football car player
To be fair you have to have a very high iq to understand Copypasta-
I know that "Spam" was popularized during WWII and it's use spread through asia.. They even have "Spam Sushi"
how in the flippin biscuits did it get into computers?! It's like, pig scraps..
Doncha know? Quoting Monty Python verbatim is the peak of comedy. Why, what could be more hilarious than hearing about the air speed of an unladen swallow (African or European) for the millionth time? Oh right, your mother was a hamster, and your father smells of elderberries. Ni. This reply is now peak hilarity
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9:17 there's no way this was his first take
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Hey guys did you know that in terms of water Pokemon inland, Vaporeon would be very capable of hunting grown humans?
Their bodies being the size of a medium dog and weight are just enough to pounce on a man and throw him to the ground. Their bulky stats would allow them to shrug off and outlast any attempts by the human to fight them off, and that's not getting even into moves like Hydro Pump and Scald. But that's not all these water dogs have up their sleeves.
Their bodies being so similar to water not only lets them hide in bodies of water and become nearly invisible to catch prey off guard, but allows them to enter the body through almost any orifice. Things do not get any better once a Vaporeon is inside of you. If asphyxiation doesn't kill you, the internal bleeding and displacement of internal organs certainly will.
In addition, they are able to learn Charm, allowing them to take advantage of certain... desires humans may have and create even more opportunities to go in for the kill...
I saw the title and immediately thought of the Bee Movie script copypasta. I have been forever corrupted
According to all known laws of aviation...
You know the rest.
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10:24 Hey guys, did you know that in terms of
"The dark age of 2006"
I graduated from high school in '06
*bones suddenly turn to dust*
I don't know if this is accurate but I was always under the impression Creepypasta was inspired by low-budget user-generated horror genre that was tipped off by The Blair Witch Project about the same time.
No, that's unfiction. Creepypastas were just copypastas that were creepy.
Hey, did you know that vaporeon is the most compatible
Yarr everybody, so last episode I told ye about the Buccaneer Wars, a bizarre 30-year conflict between two mighty competitive sailors t' fish up more bones that eventually led both o' 'em t' thar graves. In many ways, the Buccaneer Wars we be a product o' thar time. Made possible by the slow 'n unreliable transportation 'n communication o' the 17th century. It's unclear if somethin' like that could 'ave happened in the modern era wit' the advent o' things like the internet. In fact, thar's a lot o' things born from the internet in jus' a few decades that well-nigh no one could 'ave predicted in the past. Notable among these be the idea o' copypasta. In case ye've been livin' under a keel or a similar object fer the past few years, copypasta be essentially the act o' copy 'n pastin' a usually large, 'n usually humorous string o' text in a variety o' places across the internet, fer a variety o' reasons. It's yet another one of those weird wee internet concepts that we mighty jus' do take fer granted, simply 'cause it's been around fer wha' be in internet terms, a pretty long time. But somethin' ye might nah know, nor expect be the fact that in order fer copypasta as we know it t' mighty be conceptualized 'n popularized in the world wide web, some pretty major technologies 'n prototypes of modern internet phenomena had t' first blaze the trail. In this KRB Mini episode, let's take a look at copypasta lore.
Just found your channel, like others have said I like the old style aesthetic and the content is very high quality. Also random question, what are your PC specs?
Thanks man! I don't actually have a PC, since my dorm room is too small for me to realistically have one, so I use a macbook for video making as well as pretty much everything else. As for specs, it's got a 2.3 GHz Intel i7 core with 32GB ram and an integrated Intel Iris GPU. So it's not really ideal for video production, but I can usually make it work.
And now we have picture memes and animated gifs.
Let’s go new KRB episode
LMAO 'dark age of 2006' bruh
I'll have you know it was the great era of the wild wild west internet imo, oh you want that new dragon sword cursor? now your computer has aids, better not download that hamster dance song.exe
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
my copypasta: As a waifuist myself, I must clarify that the user at 2:38 is an extreme outlier. Due to negative stereotypes, I was hesitant to join the waifuism community, but when I did, I realized most waifuists are actually chill people with regular lives who just happen to have a fictional partner instead of a real one. Some waifuists do have kids with their partners (known in the community as "kidfus" but I personally dislike that term), but said kids are also fictional. It is likely that the user you highlighted is not even an actual waifuist, but rather, a troll contributing to the negative stereotypes. If someone unironically wants to raise a REAL kid and claim to said kid that a fictional character is their other parent, they are out of their fucking mind and should not become a parent anytime soon, if ever.
now rate my copypasta
Good Copypasta I might just consider using it myself if I see something specific to use it on.
No mention of "The Story of Mel" or "The Poor Man's Virus"? Oh gosh!
awesome video!
Lol mudkipz, that shit was so cash
why is the first half of this video about how Larry tessler's the Antichrist copy pasting existed in modal text editors
Hi my name is Carmon Winston im 17 years old I'm very similar to you
What i really dont appreciate is the revisionist history that assigns a 2006 nonsense word to 1960 computer development.
Good video
We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) (Ooh) Never gonna give, never gonna give (Give you up) We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but you're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry
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I am become Chismiester. Chis of Miester
The intro man
10:30 idk what is he talking about
Its best you stay that way
God I had forgotten how fucking forced the bee movie meme was
Ok
I know how to cut and paste, but I still don't understand what copy pasta is?
copy paste
copy pasta
copypasta
Plural of "BBS" isn't just "BBS." It's "BBSes."
Hey guys, did you kn
stal nice
Edit: Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. It’s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life… He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.
classic
Spoon gang checking in! If you also believe spoons are superior to forks, leave a like. Remember, the spooniverse is watching. #SpoonGangOrbit
He guys did you know that in terms of male human and female Pokémon [TEXT REDACTED]
6:55 accidental spam??? Typing 400 addresses through night accidently??
English isn't my native tongue, so... what that word means to you?
how dare you reference the vaporeon copypasta without saying it by name
Vaporeon
Isn't that a pokemon or something?
@@himanbam oh you poor innocent soul
@@himanbam heh.....heheheh....mHAHAHAHAHA-
Hey guys...
The worst copypasta to exist
PastyCasta
Make sure to forward this chain msg
first maybe
You're really shooting from the hip on this one. Modern mode based text editor still exist, vim for example, and although have a longer learning curve it is arguably easier to copy paste text in those than in a gui. Spam originated in Ham radio as spam if inferior Ham. The Nigerian prince scam is not and was never a chain email. 90% this video was made by a child
Point 1, the claim made in the video is that GUI-based text editors are what made copypasta feasible for large audiences. I never state that text editors like emacs and vim aren’t in use anymore, which would be a hard claim to make considering I use vim through CLI on a daily basis
Point 2, this is just bullshit and i can’t find a single source for the Ham radio origin anywhere. The Monty Python origin is backed by a Usenet post from all the way back in ‘93, and is even corroborated by an amateur radio hobby site here www.orarc.org/?p=1905
Point 3, I admit I do actually conflate general scam emails and chain emails in this segment, so I appreciate this one
I am a child tho you got me there
G.U.I is pronounced gooey.
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We laugh but becoming a copypasta is the best thing that a publicity team could want from a project, gods know how many people have downloaded raid just bc of the copypasta
Hey everybody, so last episode I told you about the Bone Wars, a bizarre 30-year conflict between two very competitive paleontologists to dig up more bones that eventually led both of them to their graves. In many ways, the bone wars were a product of their time. Made possible by the slow and unreliable transportation and communication of the 19th century. It's unclear if something like that could have happened in the modern era with the advent of things like the internet. In fact, there's a lot of things born from the internet in just a few decades that pretty much no one could have predicted in the past. Notable among these is the idea of copypasta. In case you've been living under a rock or a similar object for the past few years, copypasta is essentially the act of copy and pasting a usually large, and usually humorous string of text in a variety of places across the internet, for a variety of reasons. It's yet another one of those weird little internet concepts that we really just do take for granted, simply because it's been around for what is in internet terms, a pretty long time. But something you might not know, nor expect is the fact that in order for copypasta as we know it to truly be conceptualized and popularized in the world wide web, some pretty major technologies and prototypes of modern internet phenomena had to first blaze the trail. In this KRB Mini episode, let's take a look at copypasta lore.
Hey everybody, so last episode I told you about the Bone Wars, a bizarre 30-year conflict between two very competitive paleontologists to dig up more bones that eventually led both of them to their graves. In many ways, the bone wars were a product of their time. Made possible by the slow and unreliable transportation and communication of the 19th century. It's unclear if something like that could have happened in the modern era with the advent of things like the internet. In fact, there's a lot of things born from the internet in just a few decades that pretty much no one could have predicted in the past. Notable among these is the idea of copypasta. In case you've been living under a rock or a similar object for the past few years, copypasta is essentially the act of copy and pasting a usually large, and usually humorous string of text in a variety of places across the internet, for a variety of reasons. It's yet another one of those weird little internet concepts that we really just do take for granted, simply because it's been around for what is in internet terms, a pretty long time. But something you might not know, nor expect is the fact that in order for copypasta as we know it to truly be conceptualized and popularized in the world wide web, some pretty major technologies and prototypes of modern internet phenomena had to first blaze the trail. In this KRB Mini episode, let's take a look at copypasta lore.
Hey everybody, so last episode I told you about the Bone Wars, a bizarre 30-year conflict between two very competitive paleontologists to dig up more bones that eventually led both of them to their graves. In many ways, the bone wars were a product of their time. Made possible by the slow and unreliable transportation and communication of the 19th century. It's unclear if something like that could have happened in the modern era with the advent of things like the internet. In fact, there's a lot of things born from the internet in just a few decades that pretty much no one could have predicted in the past. Notable among these is the idea of copypasta. In case you've been living under a rock or a similar object for the past few years, copypasta is essentially the act of copy and pasting a usually large, and usually humorous string of text in a variety of places across the internet, for a variety of reasons. It's yet another one of those weird little internet concepts that we really just do take for granted, simply because it's been around for what is in internet terms, a pretty long time. But something you might not know, nor expect is the fact that in order for copypasta as we know it to truly be conceptualized and popularized in the world wide web, some pretty major technologies and prototypes of modern internet phenomena had to first blaze the trail. In this KRB Mini episode, let's take a look at copypasta lore.