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[-] brown567@sh.itjust.works 85 points 1 year ago

I'm shocked that wasn't an option

[-] rubythulhu 58 points 1 year ago

It’s the “radio” option, they just haven’t updated the form in 40y

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Online & email didn't exist 40 years ago

[-] rubythulhu 8 points 1 year ago

online, 70y ago: https://www.etymonline.com/word/online#etymonline_v_7031

email, 41y ago: https://www.etymonline.com/word/e-mail#etymonline_v_5763

The internet didn’t exist at this time, but those two words did, and referred to their pre-internet equivalents.

Also, I was making a joke. But you do happen to be incorrect.

[-] menemen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

IPv4 is 43 years old, and there was the arpanet before that. They probably meant Usenet with the term "online". The first E-Mail was sent in 1971.

Bit tbh, I am quite impressed how early the YMCA adopted.

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 1 year ago
[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

In the right coordinate system it becomes a circle...

[-] uis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

Too real. I only found out that YMCA is a real thing a few years ago.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 year ago

I had to read up on it just now. The abbreviation stands for "Young Men's Christian Association" and apparently, it's about as gay as it sounds, which the song celebrates.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

The Village People strongly assert that there was nothing homosexual intended in their song or music video.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

*~Gay as in cheerful and happy~.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sure they do. I'm also sure they're giggling about it too.

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 4 points 1 year ago

Is that really what it is? Shit I thought.... well now that I think on it I'm not sure what I thought but not that. Some place with a pool and various physical activities.

[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's mostly it, it's got a gym, pools, basketball court, some have workout classes some have prek classes, and after-school activities for kids

Well it was originally designed as a charitable organization to, among other things, provide temporary housing for homeless young men.

Funny thing though, it turns out the way a lot of young men ended up being homeless was bigoted Christian parents kicking them out for being gay.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

How have never heard that song? It is everywhere!

[-] jedibob5@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

They meant they only found out the YMCA organization was real recently, they thought it was just a song at first.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Smh my head

[-] Deebster@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

@snooggums@kbin.social Perhaps we need to bring over the Old Reddit Switch-a-roo.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Technically I heard about it on the radio and The Village People simultaneously.

[-] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago
[-] moistclump@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Ohhh the song I was thinking about that scary movie about the villagers and someone being dressed in red. Man, that’s embarrassing.

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