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Memepool is back, after 4yr hiatus

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Fun facts: memepool predates MySQL, RSS and the word "blog".

It uses a series of flat files as the data store. I wrote my own in-memory database that I wrote.

Ha. I only posted on a dare. The app in the article was written by my coworker.

Nice press hit.

Darn - I was hoping this meant that it was coming back. I think that one of my earliest non-game memories of the Internet is reading through the memepool archives.

I would love to reboot it, but I can't come up with anything that isn't delicious (as it was) and reddit on one end, and BoingBoing on the other.

I think you give your own creation too little credit. I would have never found Peanuts by Bukowski without you, and that was worth all my internets. I never saw it on reddit, never saw it on slashdot, never saw it on digg.

Anyway, thank you for running memepool as long as you did and keeping it up for others to enjoy. I used to love Lowbrow around when you were actively posting and I'd be curious to re-read through their archives archives, but they're gone from what I can tell.

Kinda ring true, Peanuts by Bukowski didn't surface on those sites but I ended up seeing it on Tumblr a few years back.

Interesting how good content ripple through the online communities.

Memepool was awesome because it wasn't one of those sites, how to put it -- much better signal to noise ratio, maybe? My god, man, BRING IT BACK!!!!!

Do a memepool + halfbakery + kickstarter + 3d printing as a service + airbnb + Justin.tv + Darwin awards thing. Total vertical integration.

Strongly agree, Memepool was a great well-curated archive of stuff I typically didn't see anywhere else. I <3ed it.

Heartbreaker!

How about something that is memepool? It's greatness was in the quality of the content rather than anything else.

Ah, memepool, #perl on EFNet, etc. Good times. But you shouldn't tease!

Aw, sad! At least I can take this opportunity to say thanks, Memepool was awesome.

Oh, this is awesome. I still have been typing in the url from time to time. Now if only Jorn Barger would drop the bad google products and continue the old-school robotwisdom...

I've been checking Memepool every eight months. You deserve the Internet Award or something. Truly.

I used to go to memepool every week for about a year before I finally gave up. I think the author underestimated how much people loved it.

it turns out that writing is hard and i always had other projects taking over.

Sometime instaed of typing "reddit" my hand still types "memepool". Today was such a day! imagine my shock!

Same here. Reflex meme[tab], and then "What? No guy in elevator story?"

serendipity: a few hours ago i was thinking 'i miss memepool' and ended up in metafilter instead.

Wow, I remember reading memepool as a complement to the content that Slashdot used to feature.

So what did happen to memepool anyway? You guys just got tired of it?

Disappointed to see that it is just a plug for someone's toy app, rather than something genuinely interesting or weird.

The app was actually pretty great.

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