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      Judging kids artworks will forever be the funniest internet thing, at least in 2004 anyway.

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      TUCKER MAX! Holy shit this has been driving me crazy. It just came to me out of nowhere. That’s who wrote it. I could be wrong but I don’t think so. The level of relief I feel makes me confident enough to make this comment before I go digging.

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      I can’t find the story, but we both have a good memory because it’s clear he built his career from that one.

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        Excellent fucking work, wow. This was like 2002-2003, around there, and so we’re twp-plus decades back here. Keep doing whatever you’re doing, it’s working.

        I’ll edit too: I may have attributed some negativity to Maddox (although I think he was a self-proclaimed asshole), but Tucker Max is the one who for sure went a bit off the deep end, I recall he ended up writing a book. Pretty much just frat guy personified.

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          I swear, I was standing outside having a smoke and removed to my wife about how your comment was driving me insane. “Babe, I’m thinking it was Tucker, but all I can come up with is Tucker Carlson and, well, we both know that isn’t…MAX. It’s fucking TUCKER MAX!!! That’s it! I know that’s it!”

          Haha, I swear I was going insane. It was on the tip of my tongue.

          The relief I felt, oh my god!

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      His wasn’t the Astro glide story, but he did link to that site on his page. I can’t remember that dude’s name though.

      It was a great story.

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        Your memory is certainly better than mine. I’m happy enough to have drawn a link between the two. My visits to Maddox’s site coincided with the beginnings of my experimentation phase, so I appreciate anything that made it out the other side.

        Despite how we might perceive Maddox in the modern day, the site was such a good representation of what the Internet looked like then. That was what content looked like.

        I always end up feeling nostalgic when I talk about it.