There are eight billion human beings in the world. I think you should break down that 15 billion number a bit.

I have to ask, is the software preservation 4am, who cracks the Apple II disks? If so then hooray, thanks for being so great!

Neocities still exists, and is doing great!

As mentioned elsewhere Homestar Runner is still around and not doing badly. The Wiki, however, is severely starved for resources, it always takes a long long time to load for me.

It wouldn’t be difficult to make Lenovo laptops more repairable. I’ve had two, and both required taking the whole thing apart to replace the keyboard, the part most likely to have problems. I hate that about them.

Aah okay. “MeFi” is “Metafilter,” another website out there. where I’ve seen a different DigDoug. It’s a cool name anyway.

Mobile devices tend to be much less versatile than PCs, mind you, and on purpose, due to one of Steve Jobs’ most misguided apprehensions, that it’d be a good idea to hide the filesystem from the user. (Cue someone somehow claiming that’s Good Actually in three, two, one…)

Yes, although it will be a full ANDROID PC.

I know, but it’s not nearly the same kind of thing as back when they were big, sadly.

He is!

Took a bit but found it, it’s not ChatGPT but a small self-hosted AI with an open source model: https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/

Trying to track it down…

He was sick and had a weak moment. He didn’t realize that it would just make the quote up.

(wow I’m showing off my freakish memory here, I’m still an active Metafilter participant)

timecube.com

Television Without Pity

jumptheshark.com

What? Newgrounds is still alive and still has lots of things posted?

Yeah, Newgrounds keeps chugging along though.

Also, The Conservatron, another crowdsource humor site, home of the Evil Black Marble from Marble Madness.

It seems like the Internet Oracle has finally, at last, succumbed to linkrot.

Two sites that still exist are Everything, H2G2 and the homepage of venerable roguelike game Nethack!

(I am slightly responsible for its continued existence. I noticed that it had gone offline a while back. I happened to have Chris, one of its founders, in my contacts list, so I sent him a message about it. Turns out to have been an expired credit card, a quick change of backing funds and GRUDGE MATCH LIVES AGAIN!)

One thing that still exists is WWWF Grudge Match, a likely inspiration for MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch, a crowdsourced humor site where they put different pop culture figures against each other in textual battles and people contributed their takes and votes on who would win. It hasn’t updated in over two decades though. It even spawned a book!