Very true, I remember those days too. ASP was always seen as welded to VBScript but it could be coded in JScript too, and the code looked a lot more readable and proper too. I can't remember any round-tripping of code, it wasn't really on the cards. We are talking about the dawn of the DOM at this point here. getElementById() was just below the horizon and IE4 was the only game in town. One feature of ASP/IIS I liked was the Application object, allowing data sharing on an application level. PHP has never had that really. IIS was replaced by apache in 2002 in my career and became irrelevant in web development. It's been at least 5 years since I last met a dev with an IIS/ASP gig.

No bash in the stack vs git graph. We not using that anymore? I didn't get the memo.

What would happen is that you will ignore the toaster, on account of the number of false positives it has already spewed out in the past.

You missed HTCPCP/1.0
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc23...

Abstract
      This document describes HTCPCP, a protocol for controlling,
      monitoring, and diagnosing coffee pots.

at the end of the year, surely? More morons may come.

You will need an almanac as well, really. I think only Polaris or (possibly) the Southern Cross can be used for fairly approximate latitude without further data or measurement. Sun: noon altitude varies throughout the year. Basically any other body you need to know time and ephemeris. I am only learning astronavigation now but that's how I understand it.

or for more earthiness, an oblate spheroidal man

/usr/bin/vim

love this:
"These catapults would have allowed us to use cheap F-18s"
They aren't cheap, really, are they? Cheaper, yeah, but not cheap.

coffee -> keyboard!

Taxonomically speaking, bacteria are classified as an entire separate kingdom or domain. Just sayin.

I see a lot of objections to the word "infinite" being bandied about.

Bugs are fixed by software developers. And software developers introduced the bugs, unwittingly, into the original code in the first place. Some of the bug-fixes will introduce further unforeseen vulnerabilities. So it's quite probable that the true number of vulnerabilities in a system fluctuates, increases at times, and may only reach zero after an infinite amount of time. The assumption that there is a set of vulnerabilities in a system and this set can be reduced to zero by systematically finding and fixing them all one-by-one is clearly overly simplistic. Add software upgrades into the mix, and I think it's safe to assume that all software is buggy all the time.

maybe?
Filthy thief, Overbiting Mongoose, Moneycharging Oranguatan...Usurous Eunoch, Gouging George, etc.

Awesome post, chapeau sir. I fear there is much correctness in your predictions, there is a feral and ferocious future awaiting us potentially, or is it almost certainly? But I don't know if there will be an energy solution available to power this strip mining and these underwater cities. Possibly, but also very possibly humans will end up back burning firewood and staring up at the night sky in impotent maudlin despair.

What is this? Keyword loading? This some kind of sick SEO move?