The Internet Meme Timeline 235
CNet pointed out a great use of timeline creation site "Dipity" that has resulted a timeline of internet fads and memes. While there are some subtle inaccuracies and a few notable omissions, it seems to have touched on most of the big stuff. Everything from GOTO being considered harmful to "the website is down," it's a great trip down memory lane if you don't mind a few speedbumps like the goatse guy.
Better edit the summary (Score:5, Funny)
if you don't mind a few speedbumps like the goatse guy.
Goatse is a sinkhole, not a speedbump.
I bet it was cool (Score:5, Funny)
Slashdotted... (Score:2, Funny)
Obvious Joke (Score:5, Funny)
The website is down.
Re:Better edit the summary (Score:5, Funny)
no, there are bumps. you just have to look harder.
I for one... (Score:1, Funny)
Welcome our internet meme timelords.
Re:Slashdotted... (Score:5, Funny)
It probably doesn't run linux
ISR (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I bet it was cool (Score:5, Funny)
8/6/08: Added 'Digged' meme to timeline.
8/7/08: Added 'Farked' meme to timeline.
8/8/08: Added 'Slashdotted' meme to timeline.
8/9/08: Added 'DNS Poisoned' meme to timeline. Buy V1@GrA Now!
Re:Better edit the summary (Score:5, Funny)
ok good job (Score:2, Funny)
NOW, it's slashdottted :)
Where? (Score:5, Funny)
Where are the GRITS?
Re:signed? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:signed? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:assembly (Score:5, Funny)
And does that mean that assembly programmers are evil?
Yes
Lonleygirl15 (Score:3, Funny)
She's pretty....
Re:Slashdotted... (Score:4, Funny)
What do you know? It has the timeline and lifetime of a meme.
Re:Bonsai kitten (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Again (Score:3, Funny)
You must be new here.
Re:assembly (Score:5, Funny)
Anybody who has to ask the questions which were posed obviously is incapable of writing good code and using GOTO. Therefor the rule applies until such time as a programmer no longer has to ask. Once a programmer no longer has to ask, he may use GOTO however much he wants. However, the need for GOTO is less required at this stage than earlier in the process, and the programmer realizes there is no GOTO, just DO.
It's a zen thing.
Re:I bet it was cool (Score:4, Funny)
8/8/08: Added 'Slashdotted' meme to timeline.
8/9/08: Added 'DNS Poisoned' meme to timeline. Buy V1@GrA Now!
There was another one on the 8/8 which you missed:
8/8/08: Added 'Duped' meme to timeline.
Re:Wow... (Score:3, Funny)
1. Soviet Russia the Memes timeline you.
2. ???
3. Profit
Proof Goto is evil (Score:3, Funny)
665 print "You are sentenced to eternal damnation In "
666 print "HELL!"
667 goto 666
Re:assembly (Score:2, Funny)
And does that mean that assembly programmers are evil?
Yes
Not evil, just misunderstood.
Re:Better edit the summary (Score:1, Funny)
You want me to look HARDER at goatse?
That ain't happening!
Re:GOTO (Score:4, Funny)
FACT: Goto being harmful isn't a meme.
Re:Goto is Evil (Score:2, Funny)
Re:signed? (Score:4, Funny)
I am finding it starting to appear a bit after a story emerges from the firehose. My best guess means that the "signed" tag means that the staff reviewed (and possibly corrected) it.
You think the editors correct articles? You must be new here.
Re:signed? (Score:2, Funny)
unsigned short response = 0;
Re:Obvious Joke (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Better edit the summary (Score:3, Funny)
Thank you for sharing that. I'll have to double up on my Xanax and bourbon to get that image out of my head.
Re:Better edit the summary (Score:5, Funny)
It does have something of a mandala-like quality to it.
Do you know if you move your head from side to side while staring at goatse, it appears to follow you as you move, like that picture of Jesus you can buy at the flea market?
Re:Goto is Evil (Score:5, Funny)
of what you're reading.
Re:I bet it was cool (Score:5, Funny)
8/8/08: Added 'Slashdotted' meme to timeline.
8/9/08: Added 'DNS Poisoned' meme to timeline. Buy V1@GrA Now!
There was another one on the 8/8 which you missed:
8/8/08: Added 'Duped' meme to timeline.
8/9/08: Added 'Duped' meme to timeline
Re:Goto is Evil (Score:5, Funny)
it's hard to keep track [slashdot.org]
Re:Goto is Evil (Score:5, Funny)
The problem with gotos [slashdot.org] is that
No Hamilton '95? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Goto is Evil (Score:3, Funny)
Obligatory xkcd [xkcd.com]
Re:Goto is Evil (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I bet it was cool (Score:3, Funny)
People migrating from Slashdot to Digg increase the average IQ of both sites. -- to paraphrase a politician from the 1970s.
No, I'm not serious :-) I read Digg too.
Badgers? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Goto is Evil (Score:4, Funny)
Man, I had a teacher who thought breaks were evil.
That's OK, the whole state of California almost outlawed water [msn.com] for being evil!
Re:Goto is Evil (Score:5, Funny)
Indeed, this is the theme of a recent DailyWTF [thedailywtf.com].
tl;dr version: a software team spends five months optimizing some code, because the server keeps on running out of memory. They manage a 54% reduction in the memory footprint - but the server was running on 512 MB of ram. $60 would have bought them a 2 GB stick.
Re:firehose (Score:4, Funny)
That's not as easy as complaining.
Re:Goto is Evil (Score:3, Funny)
Even if you reach back in time, find some guru out of Bell Labs or the MIT AI project or DARPA or wherever who can write ruthlessly efficient machine code, you've still got to maintain their work, and the extra hours of mere mortals' time isn't going to be worth the extra efficiency.
Now I'm not one for throwing design patterns and agile paradigms at a problem until it stops making noise. I think an ideal team is a small group of exceptional programmers who decide on their own standards, maintain their own work, and train the any new eyeballs coming there way. A lot of software management is the theory of how to do acceptable work with market average talent. There's obviously a place for that... just hopefully no place I'm going to have to work.