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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I use dashes all the fucking time, mainly becasue I feel selfconscious about the number of semicolons I’d otherwise use.

    I have a bajillion old (pre APIgate) posts on reddit, so perhaps some of the blame for the AI penchant for the things rests on my shoulders. Sorry 'bout that.

    edit: :reads harder: oops, as opposed to normal hyphens. Yeah, nobody human got time for that.











  • It was the mid-90s, and just a shell account. Gopher, archie, pine and zmodem.

    We didn’t get PPP access for a year or two; this was the days before google - yahoo, altavista, some other engines I can’t remember, and metasearch engines like dogpile that would query a bunch of different search engines and return the combined set of results.

    This was the days of mailing lists and usenet for the most part - connect up, download messages for like an hour, then log off, read and reply, then log on and send.

    I was there for the original hamsterdance, and it ruled.