Once upon a time, Google used to only serve up text based ads. They weren't annoying and didn't try to infect machines with malware.

Yep. And we blocked them all the same.

I'm not the person you were replying to, but I - for one - would be more than happy to give up everything that came after the 90s, if I could go back to that decade.

If God is a metaphor for one or more of:

your community
human nature
the universe
the laws of physics
the workings of random chance,

then you've seen God lots of times.

If God is a metaphor for salted peanuts, I'm eating God right now.

less `find . -type f -exec grep -il "useful information" {} \;`

This is better:

less `grep -Ril "useful information" *`

They claim that, despite being heavily pirated, Iron Maiden makes a lot of profit because metal fans are so loyal they purchase more and pirate less.

Yeah. More amazing "logic" from the parasites.

Nah, WOPR was more intelligent than the average general and therefore decided the code wasn't 00000000 because that would be stupid.

So that goes to show it actually wasn't a bad choice...

$s/It/I/

If they are successful, it will be the first time humans have ever brought life to another planetary body.

It think that's a very optimistic statement.

No-one (including me) has named Tetris so far?!? Unbelievable.

...while taking breaks from pinball.

but he said "wait", and typed the magic words "apt-get install mc".

Just FYI, on Slackware that would have been "slackpkg install mc".

Hi, I'm a real Slackware user and I run ctwm and GNUscreen.

My next computer is Japanese.

Who would have thought someone would use a freely editable site to spread misinformation?

busybox vi

Ew. No. It doesn't accept numeric prefixes to commands, so it can't be considered a "real" vi implementation.

P.S.: This comment was proudly written in nvi, the vi clone that doesn't require you to tweak 10 variables to fully disable autoindenting.