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Internet Explorer: Breaking News Eventually

Microsoft Windows AWS Cloud Webdev

10 months ago 555.8K views 1 shares

Internet Explorer: Breaking News Eventually

The joke here is multi-layered, like an onion made of pure irony. Internet Explorer, famously the slowest browser known to mankind, has a Twitter handle "@TheFastest" while reporting on an AWS outage. But the real punchline? The tweet is dated April 1st, 2019, has supposedly 94.8M retweets (more than any tweet in history), and Internet Explorer wouldn't even know about an outage until three years after it was fixed. It's like watching a tortoise report breaking news.

Ten Minutes To Check A Nickname

Webdev Frontend Programming Javascript

1 year ago 386.3K views 0 shares

Ten Minutes To Check A Nickname

When your Discord registration is secretly running on a 486 processor from 1992. Ten minutes to check a nickname? In that time I could compile the Linux kernel, refactor my entire codebase, AND question all my life choices that led me to this moment. The spinning circle of doom is probably just a single-threaded function checking if your nickname contains any forbidden characters while simultaneously mining cryptocurrency on the side.