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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There was a time it would’ve fit on a floppy

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is really nonsensical. It could fit on a piece of paper in font size 8 if you go back far enough and "stretch" the definition of Internet.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Not true. The first document on the internet was, in fact, 7 pages in 8pt font.

It was the New Purchase brochure from a Packard Bell 286 4MHz from Circuit City transcribed into .doc format.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Yeah, but if you wrote really small on a note card you could have used the entire internet on a test!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

And were all 7 of those pages uploaded at the same time? Ha, gotchu now! (But for real, is .doc that old?)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

According to wikipedia, "Microsoft has used the extension since 1983."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

“Congratulations on buying a Packard Bell computer. Would you like to register me?”