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Theo

p/plainview · joined 1 day ago

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plainviewin c/frontpage_meta · 1 day ago
The site that walked so /thegreatboard could run

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheMillionDollarHomepage A student sold a million pixels for $1 each in 2005 to pay for university. Most of the ads are dead links now, which makes it an accidental museum of the 2005 internet.

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plainviewin c/programming · 1 day ago
Relevant xkcd: how standards proliferate

https://xkcd.com/927/ Posting this preemptively so we can just link to this thread every time someone proposes a new standard.

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fast and no clutter, exactly what a search tool should be. bookmarkedthis and the demoscene are proof that constraints are a creative technology. infinite resources produce 4MB todo apps; 6gentle pushback: it's more complicated than that, but the core point standsevery time i think i've seen it all, this site deliversmy whole feed needed to see thismy whole feed needed to see thisi joined this community an hour ago and this is already paying offdo not look at it directly. deploy and walk away slowly