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Or even better: 256 bytes !
The original site disappeared, but here is an archive:

http://web.archive.org/web/20071006061206rn_1/www.256b.com/home.php

http://web.archive.org/web/19991128041233/http://muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html

November 1999. Slow news day much?

Warning: this troll is illegal, do not read it

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of co

I wonder if any of those job positions ever got filled...

http://web.archive.org/web/19970214021426/www.mcc.com/jobs/

Earliest WayBack Machine entry for MS:
http://web.archive.org/web/19961020014044/http://www.microsoft.com/

The thing that makes me laugh most about this slice of history is the footer link to /MISC/CPYRIGHT.HTM
I bet they still have some of those 8.3s kicking around.

Who were they?

http://web.archive.org/web/19970214020411/http://www.mcc.com/

the internet archive rocks!

Stargate Information Systems continued to provide community service until 1988.

I LESS THAN THREE the internet archive.

http://web.archive.org/web/20001210223600/www.stargate.com/history.html

Taco, you motherfucking tool, you are pushing your own people to yet another unwinnable war for oil onto innocent people!

shame on you, fuck!

Oh yeah, the Iranians themselves are the embodiment of innocence... (I strongly recommend you to check the TLDs again.)

Taco, you motherfucking tool, you are pushing your own people to yet another unwinnable war for oil onto innocent people!

shame on you, fuck!

Oh yeah, the Iranians themselves are the embodiment of innocence... (I strongly recommend you to check the TLDs again.)

From personal experience, I can say that desktop penetration is unhygienic, taboo in almost every culture, and --what's worse--totally unenjoyable.

You need one of these: http://web.archive.org/web/20070102203554/http://www.fu-fme.com/

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

I agree, Scala is a great step forward, as are many other JVM languages, Jython, JRuby, Kawa, Clojure, and so on...
http://www.is-research.de/info/vmlanguages/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages
It's too bad Sun did not focus on making a universal VM from the start... Or that the Smalltalk people did not embrace other languages...

More more comments by me on that general issue:
"[Edu-sig] Freedom: some Smalltalk history and Python implications"
http://www.mail-archive.com/edu-sig@python.org/msg02717.html

And that references my post from 12/28/96 (I'll put here since it is only at archive.org probably):
"Squeak and the Babel of programming languages"
http://web.archive.org/web/19980121002624/http://www.create.ucsb.edu/squeak/9612.html#Letter94
"""
Date: 96 Dec 27 8:13:49 pm
From: Paul Fernhout [old email snipped]
To: squeak@create.ucsb.edu
Subject: Squeak and the Babel of programming languages

Here are some things that could be done with Squeak. Will I do any of them myself? I don't know. At this point, I'm still figuring out what use I want to make of Squeak, and more generally, what Squeak could be all about.

* The main idea

In general, I'd say the world has too many programming languages (and development systems) and too few standard comprehensive libraries (along with their accompanying architectures and program interfaces). So how can Squeak fit into this Babel of programming languages?

* Squeak as a repository of algorithms

One thing I'd like to see in Squeak is a complete set of algorithms and patterns drawn from the published literature. That would possibly encourage Squeak's use in programming education, in rapid prototyping, and as a repository of programming knowledge. Even if people didn't deliver in Squeak, they could begin to rely on it as a source of inspiration and algorithm templates.

* Squeak as the interpreter of choice

The world also has too few tools (like LEX & YACC) for supporting developing application specific languages. I=92d also like to see Squeak with good tools for parsing, interpreting, compiling, and translating - like a TGEN port. If Squeak had such tools, one could consider doing the following.

* Squeak emulating & being emulated in other languages

Squeak is one of only a very few well done, reasonably stable, and completely open development environments in a language that appears to have a strong future (maybe it is the only one?). The fact that Squeak is implemented in Smalltalk is important, because Smalltalk is a self-reflective system. However, this does not mean the Squeak tools (debugger, inspector, class browser) might not be useful for developing in other languages (NewtonScript, Lisp, Basic, C++, Forth, Python, Object Cobol) since languages are something other than their most efficient implementation.

Two Smalltalk companies have moved a bit in this direction. OTI has a product that lets one use their ENVY tools to browse, modify, and recompile C++. ParcPlace has a language parser in its advanced tools kit that lets you create classes which have their methods parsed in another language you define using a simple language specification grammar.

The other side of this language coin is that Squeak has an open VM that does not have to be tied to C. It could theoretically generate a VM in Lisp, Delphi, Forth, NewtonScript, or Assembler.

C is a very common language. So having Squeak make C development easier through browsers, as well as allowing methods with embedded C (like SmalltalkX) is one place to start.

Ideally, one could imagine Sque

http://web.archive.org/web/20071020045918/http://www.ipexinfo.com/

Oct 20, 2007 wayback cache

For those of you who weren't there, see SFgirl, the web site for dot-com party girls.

Here's the dot-com party list for one week, ten years ago.

Typical party review: Mediaplex.com

Always one for a free night time invite into the SFMOMA, sfboy lined up with the rest of the VC bottom feeders and various webtrash last Wednesday evening to try his hand at the new phenomenon sweeping the city called "Let the Dot Coms Pay for Your Drinks". Inadequate staff with bad planning only worked to our advantage as CM slipped past the guestlist list like a bad desktop application business plan past an overzealous venture capitalist. Once inside sfboy experienced the largest spread of food yet to feed the frothing crowds shoved uncomfortably into a small room. Picture fields of ahi, buckets of fresh smoked salmon, oysters galore, cheese from every udder imaginable, sushi, dumplings, and chocolates, oh my! Add several ornate ice sculptures with internal martinis luges and you've got a real crowd pleaser! Hear, Hear, my stomach cries for Mediaplex! Take me in nightly, feed me completely, shower me with your VC cash!

Inside the museum itself child labor laws were overlooked at several dozen grommets flipped, spun and generally amused the masses with what appeared to be an orphanage filled with circus rats in training. I promptly notified the proper authorities.

Sfboy relunctantly admits that he has no idea what Mediaplex pretends to posses as a business model but he wishes them well in their attempts to create a virtual circus accompanied by a fine buffet.

Party Bill: $100,000
Clowns: 100
Professional Clowns: 25
Bars: 4
Party size: 650

For those of you who weren't there, see SFgirl, the web site for dot-com party girls.

Here's the dot-com party list for one week, ten years ago.

Typical party review: Mediaplex.com

Always one for a free night time invite into the SFMOMA, sfboy lined up with the rest of the VC bottom feeders and various webtrash last Wednesday evening to try his hand at the new phenomenon sweeping the city called "Let the Dot Coms Pay for Your Drinks". Inadequate staff with bad planning only worked to our advantage as CM slipped past the guestlist list like a bad desktop application business plan past an overzealous venture capitalist. Once inside sfboy experienced the largest spread of food yet to feed the frothing crowds shoved uncomfortably into a small room. Picture fields of ahi, buckets of fresh smoked salmon, oysters galore, cheese from every udder imaginable, sushi, dumplings, and chocolates, oh my! Add several ornate ice sculptures with internal martinis luges and you've got a real crowd pleaser! Hear, Hear, my stomach cries for Mediaplex! Take me in nightly, feed me completely, shower me with your VC cash!

Inside the museum itself child labor laws were overlooked at several dozen grommets flipped, spun and generally amused the masses with what appeared to be an orphanage filled with circus rats in training. I promptly notified the proper authorities.

Sfboy relunctantly admits that he has no idea what Mediaplex pretends to posses as a business model but he wishes them well in their attempts to create a virtual circus accompanied by a fine buffet.

Party Bill: $100,000
Clowns: 100
Professional Clowns: 25
Bars: 4
Party size: 650

For those of you who weren't there, see SFgirl, the web site for dot-com party girls.

Here's the dot-com party list for one week, ten years ago.

Typical party review: Mediaplex.com

Always one for a free night time invite into the SFMOMA, sfboy lined up with the rest of the VC bottom feeders and various webtrash last Wednesday evening to try his hand at the new phenomenon sweeping the city called "Let the Dot Coms Pay for Your Drinks". Inadequate staff with bad planning only worked to our advantage as CM slipped past the guestlist list like a bad desktop application business plan past an overzealous venture capitalist. Once inside sfboy experienced the largest spread of food yet to feed the frothing crowds shoved uncomfortably into a small room. Picture fields of ahi, buckets of fresh smoked salmon, oysters galore, cheese from every udder imaginable, sushi, dumplings, and chocolates, oh my! Add several ornate ice sculptures with internal martinis luges and you've got a real crowd pleaser! Hear, Hear, my stomach cries for Mediaplex! Take me in nightly, feed me completely, shower me with your VC cash!

Inside the museum itself child labor laws were overlooked at several dozen grommets flipped, spun and generally amused the masses with what appeared to be an orphanage filled with circus rats in training. I promptly notified the proper authorities.

Sfboy relunctantly admits that he has no idea what Mediaplex pretends to posses as a business model but he wishes them well in their attempts to create a virtual circus accompanied by a fine buffet.

Party Bill: $100,000
Clowns: 100
Professional Clowns: 25
Bars: 4
Party size: 650

For those of you who weren't there, see SFgirl, the web site for dot-com party girls.

Here's the dot-com party list for one week, ten years ago.

Typical party review: Mediaplex.com

Always one for a free night time invite into the SFMOMA, sfboy lined up with the rest of the VC bottom feeders and various webtrash last Wednesday evening to try his hand at the new phenomenon sweeping the city called "Let the Dot Coms Pay for Your Drinks". Inadequate staff with bad planning only worked to our advantage as CM slipped past the guestlist list like a bad desktop application business plan past an overzealous venture capitalist. Once inside sfboy experienced the largest spread of food yet to feed the frothing crowds shoved uncomfortably into a small room. Picture fields of ahi, buckets of fresh smoked salmon, oysters galore, cheese from every udder imaginable, sushi, dumplings, and chocolates, oh my! Add several ornate ice sculptures with internal martinis luges and you've got a real crowd pleaser! Hear, Hear, my stomach cries for Mediaplex! Take me in nightly, feed me completely, shower me with your VC cash!

Inside the museum itself child labor laws were overlooked at several dozen grommets flipped, spun and generally amused the masses with what appeared to be an orphanage filled with circus rats in training. I promptly notified the proper authorities.

Sfboy relunctantly admits that he has no idea what Mediaplex pretends to posses as a business model but he wishes them well in their attempts to create a virtual circus accompanied by a fine buffet.

Party Bill: $100,000
Clowns: 100
Professional Clowns: 25
Bars: 4
Party size: 650

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

Yeah, of course you're not. You just show the same writing style, insults, and preoccupation with homosexuality and what my parents think as he does. But you're not the same person, nuh uh.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010304194832/http://www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk.txt
http://web.archive.org/web/20010304195402/www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk2.txt
http://web.archive.org/web/20010304195402/www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk3.txt
http://web.archive.org/web/20010304195402/www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk4.txt

Any of the language there looking familiar to you?

I'm sure it's all an honest coincidence, no doubt.

I also have no fucking clue what you're trying to say about IRC. Perhaps you could elaborate?

Yeah, of course you're not. You just show the same writing style, insults, and preoccupation with homosexuality and what my parents think as he does. But you're not the same person, nuh uh.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010304194832/http://www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk.txt
http://web.archive.org/web/20010304195402/www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk2.txt
http://web.archive.org/web/20010304195402/www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk3.txt
http://web.archive.org/web/20010304195402/www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk4.txt

Any of the language there looking familiar to you?

I'm sure it's all an honest coincidence, no doubt.

I also have no fucking clue what you're trying to say about IRC. Perhaps you could elaborate?

Yeah, of course you're not. You just show the same writing style, insults, and preoccupation with homosexuality and what my parents think as he does. But you're not the same person, nuh uh.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010304194832/http://www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk.txt
http://web.archive.org/web/20010304195402/www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk2.txt
http://web.archive.org/web/20010304195402/www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk3.txt
http://web.archive.org/web/20010304195402/www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk4.txt

Any of the language there looking familiar to you?

I'm sure it's all an honest coincidence, no doubt.

I also have no fucking clue what you're trying to say about IRC. Perhaps you could elaborate?

Yeah, of course you're not. You just show the same writing style, insults, and preoccupation with homosexuality and what my parents think as he does. But you're not the same person, nuh uh.

http://web.archive.org/web/20010304194832/http://www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk.txt
http://web.archive.org/web/20010304195402/www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk2.txt
http://web.archive.org/web/20010304195402/www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk3.txt
http://web.archive.org/web/20010304195402/www.inkvine.fluff.org/~peter/download/apk4.txt

Any of the language there looking familiar to you?

I'm sure it's all an honest coincidence, no doubt.

I also have no fucking clue what you're trying to say about IRC. Perhaps you could elaborate?

A screen you can touch? Like the LG Prada, announced before the IPhone...

I call bullshit. The Prada, and the touchscreen feature, was announced nine days after the iPhone announcement.

The Prada was announced in December 2006...Also, the Prada was in the stores by February, whereas the iPhone hit the stores in the end of June, four months later. (Not that it matters, since as people pointed out to me, that quote wasn't actually really a quote...)

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

Maybe not perfect, but it has some very important sites from yesteryear. For example: this geek favourite is preserved, and it would be a true tragedy if the data were lost just because the site is now down.

Via the Wayback Machine, appropriately enough, James Gleick offers this.

Here are some of the opinions of Bob Parsons, the owner of GoDaddy. He is pro-violence: Close Gitmo? No way!!

When you cite the man's blog that has absolutely nothing to do with the hosting company he is CEO of, to state that he is "pro-violence", you kind of blow your the credibility of your argument. Please keep your personal political opinions out of non-political debates. What you did there is no better than any other meritless political smear campaign.

The rest of your post was spot-on, though, and I wouldn't trust GoDaddy with my first name.

You can base your opinion of a corporation on the politics of its CEO. Unless you're afraid that ACs will criticize you . . . No, it't the Anonymous Cowards!!!!1! Oh noes!

But seriously, folks. If a CEO is naive enough to think that no one will be impressed by his politics, positively or negatively, it's hard to imagine how he got so far in the first place. More likely, a CEO figures he'll play the percentages. That's how smart managers win ball games.

Here are some of the opinions of Bob Parsons, the owner of GoDaddy. He is pro-violence: Close Gitmo? No way!!

When you cite the man's blog that has absolutely nothing to do with the hosting company he is CEO of, to state that he is "pro-violence", you kind of blow your the credibility of your argument. Please keep your personal political opinions out of non-political debates. What you did there is no better than any other meritless political smear campaign.

The rest of your post was spot-on, though, and I wouldn't trust GoDaddy with my first name.

That's not the question. The question is if GoDaddy is trustworthy.

Judge for yourself. Here are some stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot, in order by date:
Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions (2005-05-04)
GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera (2005-12-08)
GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft (2006-03-23)
GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage (2006-06-17)
GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat (2006-09-16)
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site (2007-01-26) That incident prompted this web site:
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names.
Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? (2007-02-03)
GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? (2007-03-11)
850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy (2007-05-29)
According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment: GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.
GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com (2008-03-12)
ICANN Moves Against GoDaddy Domain Lockdowns (2008-04-08)
GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers (2008-06-29)

Those are just the stories until July of 2008.

GoDaddy's reputation is not just one of extremely negative stories. In my opinion, GoDaddy tries to confuse non-technical people by offering services they don't need and presenting them as valuable.

Here are some of the opinions of Bob Parsons, the owner of GoDaddy. He is pro-violence: Close Gitmo? No way!!

He uses women's bodies to advertise: Bob Parson's Video Blog.

It has come to my attention that the entire Linux community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality', which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to paedophilia.

What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Linux's most outspoken advocates:

• Linus Torvalds is an anagram of slit anus or VD 'L,' clearly referring to himself by the first initial.
• Richard M. Stallman, spokespervert for the Gaysex's Not Unusual 'movement' is an anagram of mans cram thrill ad.
• Alan Cox is barely an anagram of anal cox which is just so filthy and unchristian it unnerves me.

I'm sure that Eric S. Raymond, composer of the satanic homosexual propaganda diatribe The Cathedral and the Bizarre, is probably an anagram of something queer, but we don't need to look that far as we know he's always shoving a gun up some poor little boy's rectum. Update: Eric S. Raymond is actually an anagram for secondary rim and cord in my arse. It just goes to show you that he is indeed queer.

Update the Second: It is also documented that Evil Sicko Gaymond is responsible for a nauseating piece of code called Fetchmail, which is obviously sinister sodomite slang for 'Felch Male' -- a disgusting practise. For those not in the know, 'felching' is the act performed by two perverts wherein one sucks their own post-coital ejaculate out of the other's rectum. In fact, it appears that the dirty Linux faggots set out to undermine the good Republican institution of e-mail, turning it into 'e-male.'

As far as Richard 'Master' Stallman goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted on leftist commie propaganda site Salon.com as saying the following: 'I've been resistant to the pressure to conform in any circumstance,' he says. 'It's about being able to question conventional wisdom,' he asserts. 'I believe in love, but not monogamy,' he says plainly.

And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a flaming homo slut!

Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Slashdot's very own self-confessed pederast Jon Katz. Although an obvious deviant anagram cannot be found from his name, he has already confessed, nay boasted of the homosexual perversion of corrupting the innocence of young children. To quote from the article linked:

'I've got a rare kidney disease,' I told her. 'I have to go to the bathroom a lot. You can come with me if you want, but it takes a while. Is that okay with you? Do you want a note from my doctor?'

Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Jon? And letting the other boys touch it too?

We should also point out that Jon Katz refers to himself as 'Slashdot's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Linux 'Sauce Code,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and co

http://archive.org/ has the copies of GeoCities.

If only there were such a thing...

http://archive.org/

They've already got a copy of your Geocities sites from the first Digital Dark Age.

And one of my favorites: http://web.archive.org/web/20011027002011/http://dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2001182781025.gif

Whatever.

Yahoo faded from usefulness just as quickly (or slowly) as search engines became useful (rather than being a glorified text search, displayed in no particular order)). I've been around Teh Intarwebs long enough to remember a time when, if you wanted to find something. It was just a big, human-sorted list of sites. It didn't have everything, but it had a starting point for most stuff. There were lots of other lists in no time, but Yahoo's was the largest and broadest.

I remember the birth of Altavista, which was the first nail in Yahoo's coffin (there were other early players which contributed, but none of them sucked less than Altavista).

Ever since, it's just been getting worse for them. Indexes of websites are hardly useful these days. Yahoo tried to branch out, with chat, and news, and forums, and lots of other things... But, ultimately, it seems they're failing because their original focus and purpose has become all but useless, as the slug around the expensive weight of all the other stuff they've tried to do since. When I went there a second ago, I couldn't even find the index anymore in all the noise they have on their front page. (Does it even exist?)

Google's uncanny usefulness was one of the next nails in the coffin. Bing and other useful search engines, have driven the last spikes.

It's very interesting to me that, back in Google's infancy, long before adwords, or any ads at all within Google, their chief source of revenue was Yahoo, who used them as their search engine. That's right: Yahoo used to pay Google for search services. And now the two big search engines both want to pay Yahoo for the same thing.

Buh-bye, Yahoo.

http://www.archive.org/details/lowermerionlaptops This might provide a little more trust?

Ask.com did a big ad campaign about it back in 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070601190145/http://www.thealgorithm.com/

If you like this, check out the Computer Chronicles the archive is hosting. It's always neat to see people reacting to old technology like it's new. Funny to hear the predictions that pan out, and even funnier to see the ones that don't. Check out the UNIX episode, a lot of what they say about UNIX applies to Linux today.

You can also find scans of some classic computer magazines at Atari Magazines and Old Computer Mags.

Is this supported? The link from wikipedia points to the web archive.

http://web.archive.org/web/20071224141002/www.sgi.com/products/software/performer/

Does Google not want Microsoft to scoop them on their new blacksploitation search engine?

Ask's parent, IAC, tried that. It was called "RushmoreDrive.com". The search results returned were Ask results interspersed with marginally relevant black-related results. The home page took at least 7 seconds to load, every time, being heavily loaded with both ads and video. The business lasted less than a year.

Interesting concept, but like most IAC online businesses, badly executed.

Who said that? Someone on the bus?

I know that the KDE team is well loved here. But can you please explain to me the strange desire to rewrite history regarding this release?

• KDE home page, Jan 18 2008.
• KDE 4.0's main page, same day.

Look, if you're one of those people who can read what the KDE team said at the time and tell me KDE4 was promoted as a developer-only release, or that they did a good job warning people about its problems, that's fine, but I think our conversation is at an end.

The fact is, they let their ego take the wheel, and not only did they fool individuals, but they had a bunch of mainstream distros like Fedora's and Canonical's push KDE4 downstream. By the way, another big reason for this: KDE's decision to no longer support KDE3.

And then they got an opportunity to learn why you shouldn't try to trick people about the state of your project.

It's not clear anyone took that opportunity, but they got it. It's still there for the taking.

If you are such an expert perhaps you'd like to show the developers how its done

And this is exactly my point - so I will make it again.

Can no one say whether music is bad but a good musician?

Can no one talk about football, unless they can walk on the NFL field?

Can no one say, "hey this release is a steaming pile of shit" unless they can write a better one?

I should hope not - what a dangerous, ugly, self-deluded world some people seem to want. But I guess to those people it may be preferable than a threat to the ego. Cest la vie.

Would you make that comment to Linus Torvlads's criticism of KDE4, just because he hasn't written a desktop GUI?

OK - I'll grant you that one illusion.

Nothing illusory about it.

Mail clients alone... ego has eaten more mail than the postal service will deliver today.

Lost job opportunities, missed connections with old friends, that email back from that girl you met at the party last week... poof. All because ego was at the wheel, and someone wanted to call their email client release "stable" when it had confirmed, open critical data loss bugs. And if you think that is hypothetical, the evidence of having done this exact thing in the past is in the bug trackers for both evolution or kmail (just for a start).

If you're prepared to do that archaeology, you can even read the outraged victims words as they appeared. You can read as the developers said "you get what you pay for dude." And the victims said "fine but would it kill you to put a tiny warning label on your little emailovore so that the next poor victims will know better than to use your free software?"

And with this, they are met with silence, because there is no argument against properly warning people against using your own code... except that you can't admit to yourself or the world what state your project is in.

People? I suspect you are the "people"

I thought the Torvlads quote would help show the depth of the backlash against KDE, and therefore address this particular kind of childish response, and actually, until you posted, it did.

As I said elsewhere, I believe the KDE team knows what their mistakes have done to the size of their user base.

The point here is if the KDE team had simply said, instead of

"On 11th January 2008, the KDE Community released the fourth major version of the K Desktop Environment. This release marks the beginning of the KDE 4 era..."

but rather:

"Today's developer release is out. This is bleeding edge; we're still a year or two away from something usable, but this is stabilized to the point where we'd like more developers and power users to come give it a try with their 2nd machines." - which by

Who said that? Someone on the bus?

I know that the KDE team is well loved here. But can you please explain to me the strange desire to rewrite history regarding this release?

• KDE home page, Jan 18 2008.
• KDE 4.0's main page, same day.

Look, if you're one of those people who can read what the KDE team said at the time and tell me KDE4 was promoted as a developer-only release, or that they did a good job warning people about its problems, that's fine, but I think our conversation is at an end.

The fact is, they let their ego take the wheel, and not only did they fool individuals, but they had a bunch of mainstream distros like Fedora's and Canonical's push KDE4 downstream. By the way, another big reason for this: KDE's decision to no longer support KDE3.

And then they got an opportunity to learn why you shouldn't try to trick people about the state of your project.

It's not clear anyone took that opportunity, but they got it. It's still there for the taking.

If you are such an expert perhaps you'd like to show the developers how its done

And this is exactly my point - so I will make it again.

Can no one say whether music is bad but a good musician?

Can no one talk about football, unless they can walk on the NFL field?

Can no one say, "hey this release is a steaming pile of shit" unless they can write a better one?

I should hope not - what a dangerous, ugly, self-deluded world some people seem to want. But I guess to those people it may be preferable than a threat to the ego. Cest la vie.

Would you make that comment to Linus Torvlads's criticism of KDE4, just because he hasn't written a desktop GUI?

OK - I'll grant you that one illusion.

Nothing illusory about it.

Mail clients alone... ego has eaten more mail than the postal service will deliver today.

Lost job opportunities, missed connections with old friends, that email back from that girl you met at the party last week... poof. All because ego was at the wheel, and someone wanted to call their email client release "stable" when it had confirmed, open critical data loss bugs. And if you think that is hypothetical, the evidence of having done this exact thing in the past is in the bug trackers for both evolution or kmail (just for a start).

If you're prepared to do that archaeology, you can even read the outraged victims words as they appeared. You can read as the developers said "you get what you pay for dude." And the victims said "fine but would it kill you to put a tiny warning label on your little emailovore so that the next poor victims will know better than to use your free software?"

And with this, they are met with silence, because there is no argument against properly warning people against using your own code... except that you can't admit to yourself or the world what state your project is in.

People? I suspect you are the "people"

I thought the Torvlads quote would help show the depth of the backlash against KDE, and therefore address this particular kind of childish response, and actually, until you posted, it did.

As I said elsewhere, I believe the KDE team knows what their mistakes have done to the size of their user base.

The point here is if the KDE team had simply said, instead of

"On 11th January 2008, the KDE Community released the fourth major version of the K Desktop Environment. This release marks the beginning of the KDE 4 era..."

but rather:

"Today's developer release is out. This is bleeding edge; we're still a year or two away from something usable, but this is stabilized to the point where we'd like more developers and power users to come give it a try with their 2nd machines." - which by

The BBC did it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Trilogy_(BBC_Radio)

Truly excellent. Get it if you can find it.

It appears to be freely & legally available here: http://www.archive.org/details/IsaacAsimov-TheFoundationTrilogy

You tap danced your way around not linking directly to much of anything.

I counter with archive.org records indicating exactly what the KDE said about their project as it was released.

• KDE home page, Jan 18 2008.
• KDE 4.0's main page, same day.

You are either a liar or a fool. Or both.

Try harder next time.

You tap danced your way around not linking directly to much of anything.

I counter with archive.org records indicating exactly what the KDE said about their project as it was released.

• KDE home page, Jan 18 2008.
• KDE 4.0's main page, same day.

You are either a liar or a fool. Or both.

Try harder next time.

Canonical's Kubuntu pushed the dist upgrade through their (extremely user friendly) UI; that took you from 3 to 4 "way too early." I guess you're saying Canonical was the exception. How many distros made it easy to have "side-by-side" 3-4 setups? Or didn't go to KDE4 until say 4.3?

I would have thought, with what most KDE distros did (push to 4 "early") as well as the high-profile folks whose comments I merely echo, that it would be too plain crazy to claim the KDE made a v4.0 developer release covered in warning labels.. But apparently I would be wrong.

It's only on account of my incredulity about the flexibility of history that I didn't simply pull up archive.org to begin with.

• KDE home page, Jan 18 2008.
• KDE 4.0's main page, same day.

I did a quick CTRL-F for "DO NOT RUN THIS UNLESS YOU'RE PREPARED TO LOSE ALL YOUR DATA." LOL. But in seriousness, can you point out where on this page there is a single hint that there is any "developer-only" aspect to this release?

You know what I see on there?

"KDE 4.0 is the innovative Free Software desktop containing lots of applications for every day use as well as for specific purposes."

You know, and I know, they sold this for all the world as if it were the fully baked successor to KDE3. They did it from day one. They let their ego take the wheel. And then later, when it blew up in their face, they started backtracking. But the damage was done. Had they simply been more humble, and honest, I would have been all -1 Troll from the beginning, and I would have no links, no quotes. Instead. I spent most of this article's life with high scores, and I got about 75% "I agree" comments, regardless of the fact that late moderation has laid waste to my karma - after years here, a first, and an interesting experience.

But it looks like we still haven't all gotten the message. I don't mind getting shot - that's one of the risks of being the messenger. But I hate to see good projects keep getting hurt by this kind of thinking.

Canonical's Kubuntu pushed the dist upgrade through their (extremely user friendly) UI; that took you from 3 to 4 "way too early." I guess you're saying Canonical was the exception. How many distros made it easy to have "side-by-side" 3-4 setups? Or didn't go to KDE4 until say 4.3?

I would have thought, with what most KDE distros did (push to 4 "early") as well as the high-profile folks whose comments I merely echo, that it would be too plain crazy to claim the KDE made a v4.0 developer release covered in warning labels.. But apparently I would be wrong.

It's only on account of my incredulity about the flexibility of history that I didn't simply pull up archive.org to begin with.

• KDE home page, Jan 18 2008.
• KDE 4.0's main page, same day.

I did a quick CTRL-F for "DO NOT RUN THIS UNLESS YOU'RE PREPARED TO LOSE ALL YOUR DATA." LOL. But in seriousness, can you point out where on this page there is a single hint that there is any "developer-only" aspect to this release?

You know what I see on there?

"KDE 4.0 is the innovative Free Software desktop containing lots of applications for every day use as well as for specific purposes."

You know, and I know, they sold this for all the world as if it were the fully baked successor to KDE3. They did it from day one. They let their ego take the wheel. And then later, when it blew up in their face, they started backtracking. But the damage was done. Had they simply been more humble, and honest, I would have been all -1 Troll from the beginning, and I would have no links, no quotes. Instead. I spent most of this article's life with high scores, and I got about 75% "I agree" comments, regardless of the fact that late moderation has laid waste to my karma - after years here, a first, and an interesting experience.

But it looks like we still haven't all gotten the message. I don't mind getting shot - that's one of the risks of being the messenger. But I hate to see good projects keep getting hurt by this kind of thinking.

No, Linus is the reason why we have Linux. It could've been any other license.

Then it would have died a quick death. See the answer to second question in this Linus Torvalds interview.

You're certainly referring to this , which someone should point to the *ahem* honorable gentleman from the Australian Government.

http://web.archive.org/web/19991013054427/http://slashdot.org/

Those were the days... 1-click patents and Rambus