Metafilter: 20+ years in, you think you know a site. (Via thehistoryoftheweb.com.)

Every few months, I get an email with the same huge PDF. It explains the concept of emotional labor, but the format itself is what’s interesting here. It’s weird: it’s grouped into themes, each with chunks of text attributed to “Eyebrows McGee”, “jokeefe”, “languagehat” and so on. The person who emailed it invariably says, “I have no idea what this actually is – seems like it’s from a bunch of forums? – but the content is really good.”

I never reply. But I’ve known since I was 11 who these people, this Eyebrows McGee and this languagehat, are.