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She seems nice.

This year marks three for me. Also still learning.

I'd quote Abe Simpson about being "with it" until they change what "it" is, but that doesn't quite apply online. You're always going to be a couple of steps behind with something as niche things crawl out of the darkness, ever mutating as they turn mainstream.

And to think, when I started on the Internet, I was already technically an adult, but I didn't act like one, that's for sure. Some lessons were hard learned.

Some of it is immortalised if you know where to look. I've changed my pseudonym a handful of times as a result.

So does JPEG. It doesn't mean that people (will) use it for that.

You make a valid point, but the root word is Latin which obeys specific, much simpler rules about pronunciation.

These are unavoidably mangled by passing into post-GVS English, sure, but nonetheless, this is, uh, clearly a case where the spelling does reflect an intended pronunciation.

If it was to be pronounced "nucular", it would have been spelled that way. The spelling indicates that "nuclear" derives from the already corrupted term and should be pronounced as such.

If you really want to be etymologically correct, nuclear and nucular are both wrong and it should be nuculear (new-queue-le-ar), which is similar to and indeed also, a bit peculiar.

Markdown varies a little from instance to instance, but you ought to be able to get away with a backslash before a problematic character (like that dot) or else backticks around something to get monospace text.

edit\.com → edit.com `EDIT.COM` → EDIT.COM

Try not to twist your brain on how I managed to get the left hand sides of those arrows.

You know America is well down the pan when people almost certainly in the pocket of the CCP are actually talking sense about it.

But then, this does make a convenient distraction from the similarly atrocious things they're doing, and planning to do, in their own back yard.

Well, yes, but actually no. It's more like MS-DOS's EDIT.COM since it runs in a command line / "DOS" window.

In fact, since EDIT.COM went through a couple of distinct variants back in the day, you could say that this is the third variant of it.

The other two being 1) the BASIC-deactivated side of QBASIC.EXE which was an editor and programming language in one, and then 2) a stand-alone, from the ground up, version (with no BASIC to disable) which came along with Win9x / MS-DOS 7.

I keep a copy of the latter in my DOSBox config. It's only 70kB.

There's part of an area in Half Life: Opposing Force that has something like this. You later end up using the cannon yourself to open up the path forward.

You could also be thinking about a couple of parts of the original Half-Life as there are a couple of times with mortar fire (including the ability to use them yourself at one point), and there's definitely at least one rocket launch silo in the game.

Depending on how strong your recollection or how muddled your memories these could be a match.

Microsoft tried to add VBScript to Internet Explorer in 1996, and the ghost of it lurked around in IE until it was old enough to drive. It never caught on.

Brave of you to assume that humanity will exist in 600 years.

Actually, we might be, but the better-off ones will be back at sticks and stones and huddling around wood fires and the like.

There's at least one supplier here in the UK that still sells free-to-air-only dumb TVs. Digital of course, because we turned off analogue TV signals years ago, but no smarter than that. Definitely no Internet connectivity.

If I decided I was going to become a regular TV watcher again, I'd probably get one of those.