@charlag yeah, I keep seeing people talk about how we should "bring back the personal web", and the thing is, it never went away: most people have decided they don't want it. The people who do want it will find it, but it's never going to be more than a tiny minority. The corporations have won and there's not much point preaching, so I'm gonna try to be happy just tending my little garden

Wikipedia editors were so sick of people arguing on the talk page for this math thing that they made an exception to their "not a forum" policy and created a special talk page just for people to argue about it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cantor%27s_diagonal_argument/Arguments

Huh. Today I learned there was a whole separate category of ASCII art possible on PLATO, because the system supported backing the cursor up and drawing letters *on top of* other letters

People were sending these to each other a decade before the infamous "joke markers" BBS post http://www.platohistory.org/blog/2012/09/plato-emoticons-revisited.html

@carcinopithecus This makes me so sad. It never even occurs to them that maybe the husband didn't want a dog, that getting a dog was a decision the wife made and the husband tolerated because he loves her. Maybe the husband knew they couldn't properly take care of a dog because they're both busy with work and they live an hour away from the nearest vet, and the wife overstepped his boundaries and got a dog anyway. Maybe the husband got the dog against his wife's wishes and is just a fuckup, we can't possibly know, but the only act of unkindness in the story that isn't speculation is his wife calling the vet *just to castigate them* and yet she's blameless in all of their stories. The projection is depressing