A not-so-comprehensive List of all the Cohost references in the song™
The goodbye track for Cohost we did is getting a fair amount of hits from people off cohost who never spent a lot of time (or any) on the site, so I thought it'd be fun for preservation sake to catalog some of the nonsense.
I'm going mostly off of memory and some of these really are "you had to be there" untranslatable but I think there's still some gems. Apologies to anyone if I got something wrong lol
Note - if you access this post after 2024 you'll most likely need to use all of the archive links
CSS Crimes - Article on The Verse about Cohost
(Archive)
Intern Secretary Eggbug - created by Kyn
(Archive)
Subscribe to Cohost plus
(Archive)
New Garfield - Created by CoolTimesOnline
(Archive)
Striking while the iron's hot
(Archive)
Great City of Canals - by Michael Lutz
(Archive)
Dabochosting - It didn't really start here but this is a good summation
(Archive)
Jpeg compressed / Obliterated Gameboy / aka the Blood Gameboy - Man where to start with this one. Sleeps-darkly and coda came up with a post with a picture of a Gameboy on it - and every time a unique IP address loaded the chost, it added more jpg compression until it looked like glitch art cosmic horror.
(Earliest archive of it available - kinda can make out the gameboy)
(Most recent archive - the blood gameboy)
Update - coda documented the journey! / Archive
Grand Vizier Chat
(Archive)
I think technically Dante started this one (original) / (archive) but it spiraled out from there in the tag
NES pictionary - incredible interactive posts run by lunasorcery.
(Archive)
kid from omelas - Another "not actually sure where it started" but Ursula K. Le Guin's The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas became a fucking fixture on here.
(Archive)
Turn A Gundam Patch notes - how many platforms use Tomino's masterpiece for context in their product release notes? Cohost was built different.
(Archive)
Todd Howard - The Real™ creator of Skyrim, right here on Cohost.
(Archive)
he is only carbon now - Ryan Reynolds, 1976 - 2023
(Archive)
Love Honk - The future of music, tbh.
(Archive)
post hog - The post hog is here for you!
...until there's discourse
useless box - hours of entertainment
(Archive)
sheev's plan - with all the star wars content on the platform I think this was the most important
(Archive)
wizardchosting - margot asked and cohost answered the call
yea I included my own but it's important to see the chain
(Archive)
third age of posting - the true heyday
(Archive)
orb - doesn't work on mobile, but on desktop - scroll to see the wisdom of -12's orb
(Archive)
columboposting - another 'this was so ubiquitous that I went back to one of the earliest but lemme tell you, Peter Falk was a fixture on this platform.
(Archive)
boyrap premium - what could have been
(Archive)
Intern Secretary Eggbug weighs in | Archive
taller than the CEO - we can't do this to her
(Archive)
It's like a website in here
(Archive)