{"id":19137,"date":"2025-06-11T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/aidan-jones-the-10-funniest-things-i-have-ever-seen-on-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T17:37:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:37:33","slug":"aidan-jones-the-10-funniest-things-i-have-ever-seen-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/aidan-jones-the-10-funniest-things-i-have-ever-seen-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Aidan Jones: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stand-up shares his favourite Australian comedians \u2013 as well as a man transforming into a cat<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\"><strong>Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The internet gets a lot of bad press, most of which is itself published on the internet, which does seem hypocritical. The complaints usually mourn a loss of innocence and freedom. They remember the way things used to be, before the digital world was conquered by a handful of infinitely powerful tech oligarchs.<\/p>\n<p>I remember when we first got broadband in 2005. I felt like one of F Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s Dutch sailors at the end of The Great Gatsby, \u201cface to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2025\/jun\/12\/aidan-jones-the-10-funniest-things-i-have-ever-seen-on-the-internet\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1270ca7d3eb84ca47d6ca695a82d0485ea823a24\/522_0_4409_3526\/master\/4409.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b8972499a9554ffa67de8d47ff874117\" title=\"Aidan Jones: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)\" \/>The stand-up shares his favourite Australian comedians \u2013 as well as a man transforming into a cat<br \/>\nGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email<br \/>\nThe internet gets a lot of bad press, most of which is itself published on the internet, which does seem hypocritical. The complaints usually mourn a loss of innocence and freedom. They remember the way things used to be, before the digital world was conquered by a handful of infinitely powerful tech oligarchs.<br \/>\nI remember when we first got broadband in 2005. I felt like one of F Scott Fitzgerald\u2019s Dutch sailors at the end of The Great Gatsby, \u201cface to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The stand-up shares his favourite Australian comedians \u2013 as well as a man transforming into a cat Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email The internet gets a lot of bad press, most of which is itself published on the internet, which does seem hypocritical. The complaints usually mourn a loss of innocence and freedom. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/11\/aidan-jones-the-10-funniest-things-i-have-ever-seen-on-the-internet\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aidan Jones: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}