#metabrainz

apparently there's an haiku meme going on

of which I did not know

I am always late with everything

LJ was my first "Primary FLOSS Project".

shit, I have like eleventy alt characters lj's and shit too

lolfloss really?

i thikn oyu've been member longer thna me

" Created on 30 June 2001 (#215016) Last updated on 9 December 2006 "

for those of us too young to be in the loop, what was LJ all about?

Leo_Verto: Private pre-blogging.

ah

s/Private/Social/

analogous to tumblr today

that's what I said!

oh

let's talk about uucp and usenet and really bother the young'uns

♫♪♬ darling we're the young ones ♫♪♬

hahah i totally forgot i made this: http://cheezburger.com/3121735168

there might be a ticket for BookBrainz Lynx compability…

at least an item on my trello board

lynx still has best parsing for screen readers save everything requiring javascript to render these days

CatQuest: they're colloquially called floppy disks across the English-speaking world despite not being floppy

LordSputnik: I know, and it's technically incorrect andi hate it XD

Like a hard disk is called a hard disk despite being a series of disks inside a metal box

it's kinda hard tho

It's not a disk :P

well, technically there are disks inside

and it used to be just one

Yes but that's like saying a car is a wheel

it's just that manufacturers have had the great idea of putting multiple ones inside

In fact nearly everything in a computer is incorrectly named

kinda like this http://www.tirechainsrus.com/media/wide-base-du...

yea, pretty sure hard disc used ot be like,, one dis at one point

but yeah, I guess that just happens when the field evolves extremely quickly but people like the old terms :P

A monitor doesn't monitor anything, a mouse doesn't squeak, a motherboard doesn't have any children

Now you're just taking everything literally :P

A southbridge isn't a real bridge either

LordSputnik: You mean a universal serial bus, doesn't actually have wheels that go round, round, round?

That's exactly what CatQuest was doing with a floppy disk :P

Freso: exactly, and neither is it universal!

but all standards are universal!

there's just a few different ones

927

obvious link to the obious webcomic goes here

Leo_Verto already did.

-ish.

:P

is that the number. that's the number. i can recoginze it

ffs

I've memorized that one

obviously there is always a relevant xkcd

ja jøss

(and I think there's even an xkcd for there always being an xkcd)

the bot should like.. linkt ot those automatically if given a suspect of things

like we should program it with "xkcd-standards" and tne it will give that lniks

if you take apart a floppy disk (even the hard case ones), the actual disk inside is floppy

I guess we could enable the memory module

yea yea yea

as opposed to hard disk drives, where the disk inside is made of hard metal or glass