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Annual Meeting Of Unhated Technologies

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The conference room is completely empty except for the world's loneliest table. Turns out when you're looking for universally beloved tech, you get PHP 6 (which never actually shipped), IPv5 (a failed experimental protocol that was skipped entirely), and Windows 9 (which Microsoft yeeted straight into the void). The joke writes itself: these "attendees" are either vaporware, skipped versions, or technologies so cursed they never saw the light of day. They can't be hated if they don't exist. *taps forehead* Meanwhile, every other technology is out there getting roasted daily on Twitter. JavaScript? Too many frameworks. Python? Slow as molasses. Rust? The evangelists won't shut up. But these three? Pure, untarnished, because they never had the chance to disappoint anyone.

Technologies Of Yore

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So apparently there's an annual meeting for technologies everyone pretends to hate but secretly can't live without. PHP 6 showed up (a version that famously never even released), IPv5 (skipped because it was experimental), and Windows 9 (Microsoft jumped straight to 10 because... reasons?). The irony? These "unhated" technologies are either vaporware or intentionally skipped versions. They're not hated—they literally don't exist in production. It's like having a support group for imaginary friends. Fun fact: IPv5 was actually an experimental Internet Stream Protocol that got abandoned in favor of IPv6. PHP 6 died because of Unicode implementation nightmares, and Windows 9 was skipped possibly to avoid compatibility issues with legacy code checking for "Windows 9*" (Windows 95/98). So yeah, the only thing these technologies have in common is that they all ghosted us.

Imagine The World With More Windows Computers

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7 days ago 195.9K views 0 shares

Imagine The World With More Windows Computers

Steve Jobs really tried to pull a "join us and kill your baby" move on Linus Torvalds back in 2000. Imagine the audacity: "Hey, come work for Apple, but first, stop doing that thing you're literally famous for creating." Torvalds looked at that offer, probably laughed in Finnish, and said "nah, I'm good." Thank the tech gods he did, because without Linux we'd be living in a dystopian hellscape where servers run Windows and Docker containers are just a fever dream. The man literally chose open-source ideals over a cushy Apple paycheck and continues maintaining the kernel that powers like 90% of the internet, Android phones, and basically every server worth its salt. Meanwhile, Steve's probably doing that prayer hands thing from beyond the grave, still wondering why anyone would turn down Apple.

It's The Law

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Moore's Law—the sacred prophecy that transistor density would double every two years—has been the tech industry's comfort blanket since 1965. But now? The universe has BETRAYED us. Physics decided to show up to the party and ruin everything with its "laws of thermodynamics" and "quantum tunneling limitations." Programmers everywhere are having a full-blown existential crisis because they can no longer rely on hardware magically getting faster to compensate for their bloated code. The sheer AUDACITY of reality refusing to keep up with our demands for infinite performance improvements! Now we actually have to *gasp* optimize our code and write efficient algorithms instead of just waiting two years for Intel to save us. The horror. The absolute tragedy of it all.

Meanwhile In The 80's

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23 days ago 227.1K views 0 shares

Back when computer mice were being invented, someone in a boardroom had to stand up and pitch the name. The excitement was real—until someone clarified they weren't naming it after the biological swimmers. The deflation is palpable. Fun fact: The computer mouse was actually invented in 1964 by Doug Engelbart, and it got its name because the tail-like cable coming out the back made it look like a rodent. Simple times, simple naming conventions. No focus groups, no A/B testing, just "looks like mouse, call it mouse." Meanwhile, modern developers spend three weeks bikeshedding whether to call a variable userData or userInfo .

How Did He Write The Linux Kernel Without ChatGPT, Starbucks And GitHub

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How Did He Write The Linux Kernel Without ChatGPT, Starbucks And GitHub

Linus Torvalds, the mythical creature who wrote an entire operating system without once asking ChatGPT to "explain pointers in C" or pushing broken code at 4:59pm on a Friday. Legend has it he didn't even need a $7 latte to debug kernel panics. Just pure Finnish sisu, a text editor, and the audacity to email people when their code was garbage. Modern devs looking at this like archaeologists discovering someone built the pyramids without Stack Overflow.

Ancient IBM Wisdom That The Bosses Just Straight Up Promptly Forgot

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Ancient IBM Wisdom That The Bosses Just Straight Up Promptly Forgot

Ah, the ancient scrolls of IBM wisdom. Back when computers were the size of rooms and management actually understood their limitations. Fast forward to 2023: "Let's have the AI make all our business decisions!" Meanwhile, when something breaks, it's still the human's fault. Funny how we've gone from "computers shouldn't make decisions" to "the algorithm said we should fire 30% of staff, so..." I'm sure this sign is framed right next to the "THINK" posters in IBM's museum of ignored advice.

Modern Problems Require Modern Hammers

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2 months ago 205.1K views 2 shares

The evolution of Windows is perfectly represented by these increasingly ridiculous hammers. Started with a primitive rock in 3.1, gradually morphed into something resembling an actual tool by XP, then completely lost the plot with each new version. By Windows 10, Microsoft apparently decided what users really needed was a bizarre multi-headed monstrosity that looks like it escaped from a hardware store fever dream. And Windows 11? That's just Windows 10's hammer after it discovered anime and cyberpunk aesthetics. The irony is that despite all this "innovation," most of us still just need to pound in a nail. But hey, at least that Windows 11 hammer can probably run Crysis while it's breaking your thumb.

Internet Explorer Vs. Murder Rate

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3 months ago 294.9K views 0 shares

Behold, the most compelling evidence that Internet Explorer was literally killing people. As IE's market share dropped from 2006 to 2011, so did the murder rate! This is what statisticians call "correlation without causation" - or what I call "the perfect excuse to uninstall IE from your grandparents' computer." Maybe people were just less murderous when they weren't waiting 45 seconds for a webpage to load. Or perhaps Firefox and Chrome were secretly running crime prevention programs in the background.

History Doesn't Repeat, But AI Sure Does Rhyme

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History Doesn't Repeat, But AI Sure Does Rhyme

The tech industry's collective amnesia is truly spectacular. First, we survived the video game crash of '83, then the dot-com implosion, followed by crypto's rollercoaster of disappointment. Now we're watching the AI hype train barrel toward the same cliff while techbros insist "but this time it's different because GPT-5 and 6!" It's like watching someone confidently build a sandcastle below the tide line for the fourth time. History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme... with a neural network-generated beat drop.

Bloat Is Goat

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4 months ago 284.7K views 0 shares

The evolution of programming efficiency is hilariously tragic. In 1975, Chad programmers hand-optimized machine code to squeeze games into kilobytes. By 2000, we'd accepted some bloat for productivity with high-level languages. Fast forward to 2025, and we've got "programmers" creating calculator apps that consume 1GB of RAM because they've stuffed 69 frameworks into an Electron wrapper. Meanwhile, they're busy impressing AI girlfriends while Microsoft casually commits open-source theft. We went from calculating trajectories to the moon on 4KB of RAM to needing 16GB just to run VS Code without crashing. Progress™

Developers Developers Developers AI-AI-AI

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Developers Developers Developers AI-AI-AI

The corporate tech evolution in one image! On the left, we have Steve Ballmer's infamous sweaty "DEVELOPERS!" chant from 2000—back when human coders were the golden ticket to success. Fast forward to 2023, and CEOs are now calmly announcing how AI will "revolutionize our lives" while simultaneously telling HR to fire thousands of the same developers they once desperately needed. The tech industry's relationship status with developers: "It's complicated." Yesterday's rockstars are today's budget line items. Nothing says "thanks for building our trillion-dollar empires" quite like being replaced by the very tools you created.

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