Who's this then?
# EEDer aliasing to cover their lack of skillz? # Imposter trashing our rep? # Impossibly lovestruck fanboy? # All of the above?
Answers on an anteater^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hpostcard.
Thursday 22 May 2003
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URL: EED Co,Inc.URL: EED Devices.URL: EED Celebrations (Islam!).
ReplyDeleteEh? Have you gone a bit strange? Wot's all this ^H^H^H^H^H stuff?
ReplyDeleteURL: NHS EED.URL: Alaska department of EED.URL: EED.de (wtf?!).^H is probably the oldest geek-gag I can think of. In the very early days of computer comms, you typed messages through terminal emulators essentially, on BBSes and stuff. ^H is delete. So you print it out in a stream of escaped characters, what you see is people's editing. It's kind of stuck as a gag to mean something you typed and were meant to delete.
ReplyDeleteAh delete. I see. 'Delete' also as in 'Floyd deleted spiny's head realgood with one mighty blow of his pooning stick which was still stickywith the rasberry neuron-jam of the insane url link-er formally known asThe Lurker'....
ReplyDeleteYou, sir, are what is technically refered to as a shit stirer :)
ReplyDeleteYeah, ^H, modern types do it with HTML & strikethrough, but I couldn't remember the tag. Probably too much scrumpy cider or something.
ReplyDeleteBet you don't remember punched cards either :)
You suck You're ace!
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