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The Onion in 2056
agonist writes "Has anyone seen The Onion in 2056? I accidentally ran across it after clicking on one of the hyperlinks in my weekly Onion email." It's been awhile since we link The Onion. Always good for numerous laughs.
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if that's what awaits me in 2056, I'll think I'll stay here thanks
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
The Onion is my Wendesday morning coffee break reading. . . and you slashdotted it. That's just plain old wrong.
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
Satire.... meant to be funny.... not to predict future accurately....????
The Crimson Dragon
Ever wonder what Slashdot will look like in 2056? My guess is that it will look pretty much like it does today. In fact, given the increase in the number of reposts, it will probably look exactly like it does today :)
That is part of the page's joke; that is the future: web pages riddled with popups, ActiveX errors, and other glitches. Totally unlike what we have now. Oh wait....
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
In 50 years I plan to take my news in some sort of pill form. All the benifits of an RSS feed with a fruit(possibly onion) aftertaste.
You make fun of France once and your Karma is never the same...
I hit the link and saw a veritible wallpaper of Flash click-to-play icons. I laughed for a moment, and then realized that *wasn't* the joke.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
No headlines on Duke Nukem Forever's planned release in 2057 either... /me ducks
They are still making crappy Flash site in HTML 4.01 Transitional in 2056? Well that's still better than the HTML 3.2 of Slashdot in 2187.
If Microsoft was mass, stupidity would be gravity.
I think they need to upgrade their TiFi connection. It could be a lot faster, if those time cops did not restrict bandwidth in the name of "safety". Too much chroniton particle contentration, and next thing you know it's velociraptors popping up in your shower.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
These Onion people will never gain credibility as a news organisation if they cannot do more credible forecasting. Perhaps they should recruit that Dvorak gentleman.
(Above irony aside, if you read one of the Onion books, they have an issue from 2000, post election. The have a humorous forecast of the what the Bush presidency will bring which is eerily prophetic - "atleast one Desert Storm sized war", recessione etc.)
${YEAR+1} is going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!
It's been awhile since we link The Onion.
The Onion's ad revenue love you long time.
Sure, since 50 years ago (1955), it was pretty much like it is today...well, except for the Internet, the Cold War and Globalization
Globalization has been happening for several hundred years. Start with China's and Spain's silver trade for one. Nothing new, just no one noticed it until recently.
Fly me to the moon Let me sing among those stars Let me see what spring is like On jupiter and mars
One story they missed, though, is that even in 2056, some slashdot geeks still don't have a sense of humor.
Fer chrissakes... so it's in Flash... turn off flashblocker for 5 friggin' minutes and read some of the stories... they're quite good.
You'd think that by 2056, we'd have come up with a real name for ununhexium :)
51 years or technological advances and you can still kill a website.
I can literally hear my computer huffing and puffing to keep up with this page, because the temperature-controlled fan turned on as they rendered.
"This will be the year of the Linux breakthrough on the desktop"
"Semi-People" Magazine features "50 Hottest Mutant Bachelors"... ...classic.
Those wacky humanoids.
I might know what I'm talkin' about, but then again, this is Slashdot...
you'd think the million robot march would have had 1,048,576 robots, not 1,000,000
"We are not tolerant people. We prefer drastically effective solutions"
They must be running a quantum webserver - one way to beat the /. effect, post stories 50 years early, by the time anyone needs to read it, there is a torrent available, a coral cache, and 250 karma-whores pasting the content/mirror on the posts :-)
:-)
Preemtpive slashdot cacheing?
On the front of the actual article, I laughed, the use of flash actually gave is a 2002 look, but lets pretend it was futuristic!
My fav by a hair was:
Menstruation cured!
At last...
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
I call bullshit. You find it to be un-funny because you just plain can't look past your own political bias. When Clinton was in office he provided plenty of material to lampoon. Bush just seems to provide even more, and it's not like they're not concious of what an easy target he is: "VP Cheney Bursts from Bush's Chest Cavity" for example. I mean, it's rediculous, funny, but biased? Eye of the beholder man... it's like all those conservatives that BS about 'liberal media', but are convinced Fox News is without bias. You're fooling yourself.
An archived copy. I don't see why it's so offensive. God Angrily Clarifies 'Don't Kill' Rule is particularly good.
I find it extremely humorous that the same network that delivers Fox News also delivers 'The Simpsons', 'Family Guy', and that new show about the CIA Dad, with the Extra-Terrestrial live-in etc...
Lodragan Draoidh
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it. - Mark Twain
Which leads me to think that the Onion is perfectly well aware of the issue...
I stole this sig from someone cleverer than me.