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10 September 2005

What the hell is this?

post by: tellurian at: 09:51 | 15 comments

That, me old fruit, is what is known as Spam.

posted by Skrik 10 September | 09:53

Old fruit and spam, yeuch!

posted by tellurian 10 September | 10:03

I was looking for the MetaFilter page that lists members and their websites when I came across it (in a happening way). Do you by any chance happen to know the address?

posted by tellurian 10 September | 10:11

Okay, I just got this. but there's a page that listed them all, yeah?

posted by tellurian 10 September | 10:19

No, it's been replaced with the page you found that lists 100 at random.

posted by danostuporstar 10 September | 10:43

Speaking of, wasn't there a MeCha yesterday about favorite MetaFilter moments?

posted by danostuporstar 10 September | 10:45

Thank you danostuporstar, I couldn't be bothered to wade through the whole thread.
"I just changed it to something much more efficient [useless] that grabs 100 random URLs.
posted by mathowie at 9:58 AM PST on June 27 [!]"
Oh! great, what am I going to do with a random 100 URLs. Why not 6 or 765 or 1,234. They're just as efficient (but equally useless).
PS: Is strikethrough disabled?

posted by tellurian 10 September | 11:23

Also, does anyone know why Wayback machine fails for MetaFilter and MetaTalk after November 30, 2004.
I'm full of questions aren't I.

posted by tellurian 10 September | 12:06

PS: Is strikethrough disabled?

~~yes~~ no.

posted by taz 10 September | 12:09

ta thank you [1 question down, 1 bazillion to go]

posted by tellurian 10 September | 12:15

Before I vegetariansed myself I used to occasionally cook fried spam, now I fry haloumi [it tastes like chicken, just the same].

posted by tellurian 10 September | 12:34

≡ Click to see image ≡

posted by peacay 10 September | 13:00

Oh my God! not the the Temple of Rosy Cross [the original spam factory].

posted by tellurian 10 September | 13:22

Wayback starts to fail for a lot of common websites at a certain point. They just don't reindex like they used to (although it's still apparently spidering, I've been told).

Ironic, considering it's now being cited in court cases.

posted by stilicho 10 September | 17:17

I couldn't be bothered to wade through the whole thread.

I ~~couldn't~~could even begin to imagine why.

posted by danostuporstar 10 September | 23:57

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