Even if the rest of your life is in chaos, try to still take care of yourself where you can! Keep yourself together like an egg-chibird tucked into an avocado toast. 🍳🍞
all those posts about ~tumblr in the olden days~ are always about, like, 2011-2013. whomst else remembers tumblr in 2009?
no tags
“(via [url])”
“[url]:[url]:[url]:[url]:[url]:(via [url])”
Disqus comments, because there were no text replies
when you wanted to make a new post it took you to a new page/tab/window (as it should be), rather than opening as an overlay on the dashboard itself (cursed)
“Autoreblog.”
you couldn’t reblog posts directly from yourself without an extension (usually Missing e), so you had to either reblog a post you wanted via a sideblog or from someone who’d reblogged it from you
no asks
no photosets, just individual images
hipsters everywhere
standard capitalization and punctuation all day every day
titles on text posts
adding comments to everything you reblogged
having the kind of conversation you’d otherwise have by text but through the medium of tumblr reblogs with added comments instead
being mutuals with people you know from high school (some people probably still do this idk)
Gratuitous Picture of Yourself Wednesday, where you posted a random picture of yourself on a Wednesday — this was the origin of the once-popular “gpoy”/“GPOY” (murdered by “same”; rest in peace), via “GPOYW”
Smile Friday, where you posted a picture of yourself smiling on a Friday
if you were particularly ambitious, there was also Semi-Naked Picture Thursday, which was mostly for shirtless pics
“fuckyeah[insert noun]” blogs
vestigial lolcats and lolspeak
blogsecret, dear—, crushes, and other entirely submission-based blogs
leftover 2008 election memes
everyone still read xkcd because we were all self-identified “nerds”
instead of just the t, the icon at the top left of the desktop dashboard was tumblr. and the number of new posts that were waiting for you would show up in a little red bubble next to it
hating on Twilight because we were all self-identified “nerds” who were “above” that
these:
my absolute favorite feature that tumblr has ever had, tumblarity, an arbitrary measure of popularity(?) that went up and down
with no apparent connection to your actual activity on tumblr. you could
see how your blog ranked both against other blogs in your country and
against all blogs on the site. I’m begging you to bring it back, @staff
Confessions of a Serial Killer (1985) by Mark Blair.
Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned, it’s been…I have no idea how long my last confession was. Long time. I guess the main thing I have to confess to right now is I’m a serial killer. Any other confessions I might have seem pretty minor next to that one, really
