@reinouts @liaizon @stefan I love how in those days we were just like "sure, I can claim the concept of 'a rainforest' for my own personal website"

@liaizon @stefan hell yeah

@stefan this is peak table-based layout, it never got better than this, who needs CSS

https://web.archive.org/web/19971007213401/http://www.srroberts.com/forms/forms1.html

@stefan check out how much better I (did not) make that shit just one year later: https://web.archive.org/web/19971007213051/http://srroberts.com/index.html

@stefan look at that awful stone-like tiling background, the "click here"-ass bad anchor text, revel in that imagemap at the bottom

@stefan Here's one I made even earlier, for my dad's company: https://web.archive.org/web/19961230081906/http://srroberts.com/ . I don't remember if I got paid for it, so I don't know if it counts as "professional"

@stefan here, you can have a link to a page I made for a customer as a real, honest-to-god, professional web designer in 1997, when I was also still a high school student: https://web.archive.org/web/19970215043240/http://www.rustcoin.com/index.html

@stefan haha, wow, my first website would be like 29 years old, crazy how much closer it is to the existence of the first one than today!

Yes, IA has it. No, I will never give you the link.

@pty @stefan @timbl a tradition we have carried on ever since

@jonny thanks, I get it now. that's a lotta tokens.

@jonny If each token was a jelly bean, at 4 (dietary) calories per bean (https://www.calorieking.com/us/en/foods/f/calories-in-candy-jelly-beans-average-all-varieties/FVp6o3GnRdeTgOGAJ9SCKw) that's 276 billion calories, which would meet the caloric needs of everyone who can fit in Michigan Stadium an Ann Arbor for more than 3 years

@jonny Let's embrace weird American units

According to this site that I am sure has nothing but FACTUAL TRUSTWORTHY INFORMATION https://www.unitconverters.net/volume/gallon-us-to-drop.htm there are 75,708 drops of water in a gallon.

So if each of these tokens was a drop of water, that would be 911,396 gallons of water, or 569,622 flushes of a low-flow toilet.

If tokens were drops, this would be enough for everyone in Baltimore to flush. (that's the full flush, everyone in Baltimore gets a )

@aud Oh you know exactly who "we" is

@aud @jonny apparently this guy consults and give talks, and I would like a nice concise list of everyplace that has sought out his input so I can avoid them

@dantheclamman we are in danger of inventing new birds

https://www.reddit.com/r/interesting/comments/1ut9p3a/huaweis_ai_turned_a_plane_into_a_bird/

@mackuba @baileytownsend If you want numbers behind what Kuba's saying, I built a tool to show you: https://tag-federation.online/

@baileytownsend I mostly just read my following feed and the instance-local feed.

However, this mostly works because I've been around long enough that I follow lots of people.

Bootstrapping is a problem.