Game of the year! Is it just you or is it hot in here?

Commander Keen might be one of the few old enough not to have been mentioned to me since the internet became well-known.

Also, Squarez.

Had the same email address for 27 years…

Similar with “get up, Trinity” from The Matrix’s opening scene.

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Agnes Nutter, Good Omens.

Alternatively, “The most powerful person in Discworld is Granny Weatherwax”

Your last example reminds me of someone editing Wikipedia to list Ronnie O’Sullivan as the winner of the World Open, about 20 minutes before the final match finished.

They were right, and anyone would agree that it was all-but-certain, but it hadn’t actually happened yet.

This computer.

That was so insane - “we need a unique number, let’s just use the MAC” - it was like people didn’t even think through any of the implications when making ipv6 address schemes.

Similar with the address proposals that ignored the need to minimise the size of core internet routing tables.

Substitute Chaos Bringer to really give everyone flashbacks

Main menu theme, Myth II Soulblighter

I like it here, from RimWorld.

Is that to do with showing the condition it was in, and that you didn’t break it?

Today you, tomorrow me

Similar with the computer magazines, before they started coming with floppy disks.

Satisfactory.

The good news is that everyone is going to be experiencing that for the first time again in about a week’s time!

30 seconds? Some exchanges have to measure the cables to prevent customers from getting a microsecond advantage!

Thomas Midgley Jr. (leaded petrol, CFCs, lots of deaths at the “ethyl” factory)