Let it be said that I was the first. That way if this thing ever goes "viral", all hands will point to me! ME! I realized the other day that there are some things on the internet I've loved so much that I can't imagine not having experienced them. These things are the blood and sweat and tears of people who sometimes make it but often don't. And since the internet is what it is, let's celebrate these tubes by giving thanks. So what are you thankful for?
The more specific the better (i.e. a certain YouTube channel instead of YouTube itself); it really has to be something that belongs on the internet (i.e. Amazon, not bestbuy.com); and the number I'm shooting for is five.
Allow me the honor, friends, of the first Tubesgiving celebration.
Homestar Runner
Oh how I miss those Monday mornings when I would traipse down to the computer lab and watch the newest Strong Bad email. Sure, the Flash menu is a little clunky, but God help me if I don't love the sound of "TOOOOOOONS", "GAYMES!", "CHAWACTUWS?" So sad to see it in perpetual hiatus.
Dino RPG
Every day for the last couple years, I take five minutes to move around these little animals called "Dinoz". It's a free-to-play, pay-if-you're-a-sucker kind of game, but I don't mind only having one turn a day. It's nice to have a little casual distraction.
Homestuck
Homestuck is, without a doubt, the greatest comic the internet has ever known. The sweeping story, the bizarre humor, the committed cabal of musicians that produce its "soundtrack", the epic animations... I die a little inside whenever I realize I'll never produce something so grand.
BoingBoing
This blog serves me as a news aggregator, a media compass, and occasionally as a moral guide. Almost all the cool things I've encountered over the last 6 or 7 years has been filtered through the crust of the interweb and distilled here. My passions, though many and shallow, I share with 9 million other readers - TED talks, protests, gadgets, books, movements, comics, games, you name it.
The Wotch/910 CMX Forums
How do you explain to someone for the first time that you've spent the last six years as a core member of a... ah... magical gender transformation webcomic fan forum? How do you explain that even though the comic that seeded this community is poorly drawn, sometime poorly written, and rather fitfully updated (and that its premise can sometimes leave a bad taste in one's mouth), you still can't stop reading it? No matter how lame the whole thing seems, I have friends here who have seen me grow from a middling amateur to a committed web comic artist. We're all in this weird little basket together, and somehow we make it work.
So now it's your turn - can you think of five internetses that you're thankful for this Tubesgiving? Let's see em!
