• MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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    8 months ago

    I think it’s older than that. Well, parts of it are.

    Though I adore the addition of the fade to chaos in the 2009 Stack Overflow post, I recall seeing the exact early text from that answer linked and re-pasted on older CS forums as early as 2000. It needed posted a lot, shortly after XHTML became popular.

    Part of the contextual humor of the 2009 SO answer, is it takes the trend of the previous answers - getting longer and less coherent each time it needed posted - and extended it to it’s logical conclusion.

    I do think the Stack Overflow post is the definitive version.

    I wish I could find the original, or something closer, because we could compare and measure our collective loss of sanity.