The Linux Launderette
The Web is dead, apparently.
Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:17:00 +0100
https://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1 ("The Web Is Dead, Long Live The Internet")
The first graph in that is put into context here: https://boingboing.net/2010/08/17/is-the-web-really-de.html
the 'X is dead' idea is discussed here: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/08/whats-wrong-with-x-is-dead/61663/
("[I]t's impossible not to notice ... that Anderson's inevitable technological path happens to run perfectly through the domains (print/tablet) he controls at Wired, and away from the one that he doesn't.")
Oh, and... "THEN Javascript NOW Objective C".... rofl.
-- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.
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Interesting spam: in Irish!! [100% FÁIL IASACHTA Ráthaíocht]
Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
Fri, 6 Aug 2010 18:53:38 +0100
The Irish is so bad it can only have come from Google Translate, but it's fun to see spam in my (native? no, that implies first; national?) language.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Francis Tyers <ftyers@prompsit.com> To: TAG <tag@lists.linuxgazette.net> Date: 2010/8/6 Subject: [Fwd: 100% F?IL IASACHTA R?tha?ocht] To: joregan at gmail.com Cc: mlf at dlsi.ua.es
My first spam in Irish. :D
Fran
---------- Forwarded message ----------
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-- <Leftmost> jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil. <Leftmost> Also not-so-deep inside you.
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