Before the web, or AOL or Prodigy, I used to go online with Gopher. I’m in St. Paul, and the protocol was created at the University of Minnesota. They had a dial-up server, and when I got tired of BBSing, Gopher was a great resource to find scholarly texts, travel guides, and other things you can find with Google now.

No kidding. Who else remembers paying $12.50 per hour for 1200 baud dial-up?

oversights:

I’m familiar with regular cooking oil, but what’s special about combat cooking oil? My brain at first had a bit of weirdness trying to parse that headline...

The video is also garbage, as the main lifehack from it means buying a purpose built tool to prevent splattering.

I tend to spend the most time on Gawker while I’m at work and can’t watch videos, so I appreciate the text version.

“Spoilers below, for those who would rather read than watch a 90-second video that clearly illustrates what to do.”

Thank you for the written description of what was in the video. No thank you to “**Spoilers below, for those who would rather read than watch a 90-second video that clearly illustrates what to do.**” which struck me as condescending - I think it is the “clearly illustrates” as if I’m too lazy to watch the video or I…

So you’re telling me that there are bears, born in the furnace of our sun, who travel to earth as some kind of distributed of interlinked protons, and manifest as little mammals in order to make funny faces at each other? Nature is truly wondrous. 

She’s flogged that corpse so much her LinkedIn profile lists “Grave Robber” as a newly acquired skill.

There’s no way she eats pastrami, because she probably thinks mayonnaise is spicy.

It’s at this point i would like to withdraw my support for all paleological and archeological research effective immediately. Thank you and good night.

woould youlike to play æ game?

Child sized me can confirm that vector graphics were, and still are, cool as hell.

What bothers me is that the corpses don't pile up. 

I get that they’re rendering thousands and thousands of zombies and whatnot, but it really bugs me the physics seem so weird. The giant blade starts off slowly and picks up speed after a few seconds, but the zombies touching it just explode into a cloud of gore and separated limbs. None of them seem to be pushed at…

Mos-jito?

You mean you don’t like the smell of VICTORY?

The solution to this problem is shockingly simple.

Could I inject mosquitoes into someone? I’ve just come up with and awesome April Fool’s prank.