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Walked into a retro tech meetup and the projector link was a TinyURL from 2009
The link still worked somehow, but it led to a Geocities page that hadn't loaded right in a decade. Has anyone else run into ancient short links that just refuse to die?
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eva_lewis3d ago
oh come on, it's not like the world ended because a geocities page took ten seconds to load. people act like a broken link from 2009 is some kind of archeological discovery. i've seen way worse at actual tech events where the wifi drops out halfway through a demo. at least yours worked eventually, even if it looked like a screensaver from hell.
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blair_davis503d ago
Those sparkly star trails on Geocities pages were honestly a vibe though. I remember one page I found in 2004 that had like twelve animated GIFs all fighting for attention. It was a mess but it had personality, you know?
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