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Canada: Our Sensible Neighbor to the North.
#canada #politics #canadianelection #markcarney #trumpwillneverbreakus #fucktrump
Image of the Canadian flag, from Wikimedia Commons
April 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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I'm saving up these 4,870 free hours of AOL for a rainy day. Just think: For 202 days in a row, I can wistfully await the words that were the epitome of a life lived online: "You've got mail!"

#aol #internet #tech #technology #nostalgia #nerdstuff #americaonline #cdrom #cdroms #youvegotmail #the90s
A photo of America Online CDs, versions 3 through 9. Version 3 gave you 50 free hours. By the time Version 9 rolled around, you got 1175. Lucky you. (Somewhere I surely have versions 1.0 and 2.0 on floppy disks.)
April 26, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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Sometimes I miss the days when the Internet could be confined to a box and tucked away in the back of a closet where it could do no harm.

#internet #theinternet #tech #technology #nostalgia #nerds #nerdstuff #internetinabox #compuserv #ithinkistillhavethisboxsomwhere #maybeishoulddestroyit
A photo of "The Internet in a Box," version 2.0. The package contained software for connecting Windows machines to the Internet (a TCP/IP stack, telnet and FTP clients, newsgroup readers, Compuserv... all the good stuff). It was purchased at a closeout sale, probably in about 1996.
April 14, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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@thehill.com - It doesn't inspire confidence in a news site when it runs "Sponsored Content" like the image below. Sure, the photo of the Social SecuuririTty ADMiNiSTRATiON building looks real, but the headline implying that Congress did something? No one will believe that.
#ads #stupid #funny #web
A screen capture of "Sponsored Content" that appeared on thehill.com on 4/4/2025. It shows senior citizens lined up at the doors of the "Social SecuuririTty ADMiNiSTRATiON" building.
April 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM