Omegle shuts down after 14 years of operation.

Youtube pranksters in shambles

Edit: Wow, after reading the page, this is way worse than I thought. Omegle founder was an actual hero, and the reason for shutdown is incredibly unfortunate

Yeah, there was a fuckton of paedophiles on it sadly and there was a lot of illegal shit on there.
I hope more people read this article than just the headline. I mean, I always do, but people should hear the details on this one. I'm not even a user.
Not just pranksters. A lot of musicians too. The Dooo, Marcus Veltri, Rob Landes, etc. sad day..

Great quote!

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” — C.S. Lewis

Odd to read that C.S. Lewis doesn’t want to live under an omnipotent moral busybody.
- Lewis gets pulled under the "Christian" umbrella far too often. I mean yes he was a Christian but wasn't a far-right nincompoop either.
  
  Both he and JR Tolkien were contemporaries who shared a faith. The main difference between the two was Tolkien specifically didn't write allegorically while Lewis did.

An interesting concept that unfortunately exposed awful people. I never let my kids on there because every 4th visitor was a penis. It had the potential to connect people. A shame it was abused.

But that in itself is already a valuable life lesson.

If you want to make some quality friends, you gotta wade through all the dicks first.
- Isn’t that a South Park reference
I never used the video chat for that reason, but I did have a few interesting discussions about philosophy and mathematics, when you were able to enter your interests and it matched you with people who'd entered the same.

Another piece of the olden-days internet died today. Buonanima.
For the longest time, having never been there myself, I thought that it was just an open video chat where that was its purpose. Then the viral joke videos came out and I was kinda confused why kids were on the jerkoff site.

Aye that sucks. I never felt the desire to use it but it’s a shame something like that can’t make it. Founder’s message seemed sincere.

I forgot that it existed. I thought it disappeared years ago.