I receive some spam comments every now and then either on the article comments or my guestbook, but today I noticed a spam comment that really made me raise an eyebrow. It went something like:

Hello, Neat post. There is a problem along with your website in internet explorer, might check this? IE still is the market chief and a big component of folks will pass over your wonderful writing because of this problem.

I bolded the important part because it really made me laugh out loud. So in the honour of the now defunct Internet Explorer, I leave you with this funny IE ad, in glorious 144p:

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Got this back in 2013 when I was living in UK, from a charity shop. Paid only £12 for it, and while I know it’s not one of them fancy space watch, I grabbed it because it’s elegant, stylish and functional

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and the days go by just like the white-winged dove

May The Fourth Be With You, Bad Motherfucker!

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Stepping on a carpet of glass
You’re just happy you don’t drop on your ass
Just be thankful that it’s there in your grasp
Recovery

Open up your cynical eyes
Step forward now
Don’t be shy
If it’s complicated, simplify
Recovery

Back to the roots.

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Mais où, où iras-tu, où iras-tu quand les regrets reviendront?

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One of the best songs ever. At the 4:20 mark you’ll also notice something spectacular begins to unfold.

If you say about yourself that you’re a “dev”, or a “geek” and you list your pronouns before the technologies you use, congratulations! You’re not a dev, you’re not a geek, you’re just an attention whore.

I’ve seen so much idiocy on the internet in the last couple of years in regards to technology that it baffles my mind.

The latest to do so is Eddy Burback with his Youtube video I hate my phone so I got rid of it.

Sure, companies like Meta, X, etc are cancer and apps that make use of the endless scrolling, like TikTok, Instagram, Youtube reels, etc are the fucking worst. But if you’re unable to break the habit of fucking scrolling for one hour (like the dude says at the 1:10 mark in the video), THAT’S YOUR FUCKING PROBLEM.

You don’t need to throw your phone in the bin, you don’t need to revert to 1990s tech and you don’t need to return to monke.

Look, I love me some retro tech, it’s cool, it’s got the nostalgia factor and everything looks pretty when you look at it through rose-tinted glasses. I’ve had my share of playing with a lot of gadgets, be it phones, computers, cameras (photo or video), audio cassette players, I get it. I know why using retro stuff is cool. But whenever I’m using a retro tool, I’m stopping at the moment where I lose real life functionality.

Remember kids, technology is a tool and we need to know how to use it properly. If we’re not using it for our benefit, then we need to find better ways to make ourselves better, and use it better. We don’t need to reject progress just because we’re too idiotic to control ourselves.

For the love of progress, please stop being retarded monkeys.

You weren’t one of the good ones, you were one of the greatest ones. Rest in peace.

Still from The Salton Sea (2002).