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Shakespeare Was Really Ahead Of His Time

Shakespeare Was Really Ahead Of His Time
Ah, the Bard's prophetic vision of modern tech support. Shakespeare apparently predicted SSL certificate failures centuries before HTTPS was even a twinkle in Tim Berners-Lee's eye. "To connect, or not to connect, that is the error message." Somewhere, a sysadmin is nodding solemnly while restarting nginx for the fifth time today. The real tragedy isn't Hamlet—it's your expired certificates.

Medieval Tech Influencers Just Dropped

Medieval Tech Influencers Just Dropped
Medieval tech bros would've been insufferable. "Just discovered this revolutionary 10x scaling solution called 'printing' that eliminates manual copying. Disrupting the entire monk industry! 🚀 First adopters will dominate since 95% of the target market is illiterate anyway. Classic network effect play. The painful irony is that today's tech influencers haven't evolved much from their 1450s counterparts - still hyping up obvious innovations with manufactured urgency while completely missing their own anachronisms. "We are SO early" has been the battle cry of overconfident tech evangelists for nearly 600 years.

Time Traveling AI Engineer

Time Traveling AI Engineer
The time traveler has been spotted! ChatGPT launched in 2022, but apparently Courage was the beta tester back in '96. That old computer wasn't running Python or JavaScript—it was running pure anxiety. The irony of a "cowardly" dog secretly being the first AI prompt engineer is just *chef's kiss*. Developers today think they're revolutionary for asking an AI to write their regex, meanwhile Courage was probably using it to generate excuses for Eustace about why the farm's network was down again.