Earlier this month something unbelievable happened, StumbleUpon closed down. I didn’t know it was founded in 2002. I started using it in 2005, or 2006 I think. I can’t remember exactly, I’m pretty sure that I started using the site well before that blog post, but who knows.
Endless hours, nay, days were spent stumbling across the internet. I found many a strange photo, or comic, or video. Some interesting natural? formations. The whole basis of the Going Green series of posts started from some stumbles. I had interesting conversations with people, sadly I can’t remember any of their names.
It all started with that browser add-on. You know, back in the hay-day of browser add-ons. You couldn’t open someone’s browser without 36 different things opening up, stealing all your cookies, and making life really weird. Yet back then, no one cared. I gladly stumbled all over the internet, well into the morning hours. Things slowed down when I switched to the Chrome browser. And things practically disappeared when the browser add-on turned more into an iframe. I guess SU wanted even more of our dataz. It might have been around this time that they changed their logo from the cool green SU to the strange ugly orange. I see that as the death of them.
I honestly not have known that they were shutting down had it not been for this Reddit Post.
Regardless, me and my 42k likes will live on forever. They might not be relevant, they might not even exist anymore, but good golly, they were some great times wasted away on the immature internetz.
