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Web Singletons?

Posted by timothy on from the magrathea-dot-com dept.

tcmb writes "There are an uncounted number of web mail and picture sharing services, there are more than enough web sites for online bookmark management and friend-finding, but as far as I know there is only one Internet Archive. Which are the true web singletons, services that exist only once in this form?" And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?

3 of 254 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What? by Iamthecheese · · Score: 0, Redundant

    (Archive (the archive (the archive (the archive (the archive))))) fixed it for you

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  2. Re:What? by Half-pint+HAL · · Score: 0, Redundant

    TheArchive.archive.archive.archive.archive(); Let's do it with objects!

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  3. Re:What? by JuanCarlosII · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Let's:

    var archive = TheArchive;
    while(archive) {
            archive = archive.archive();
    }