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1. cthos 🐱 Mastodon 6 min later

   @zachleat ….Zach.

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 9 min later

      @cthos

2. Eric A. Meyer Mastodon 7 min later

   @zachleat First of all, how dare you

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 19 min later

      @Meyerweb I was involved in neither of these things!!

      1. Gabriel N Mastodon 1 hr later

         It’s all your fault @zachleat !

         how could he indeed, @Meyerweb !

         #shootthemessenger

      2. Alan Dalton Mastodon 2 hr later

         @zachleat @Meyerweb How convenient.

      3. Eric A. Meyer Mastodon 2 hr later

         @zachleat That is EXACTLY what a person involved in either or both of those things would say, hashtag sus

         1. Gabriel N Mastodon 17 hr later

            @Meyerweb @zachleat #SoVerySus

         2. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 17 hr later

            @Meyerweb I’m not sus YOUR [sic] SUS

3. Stuart Langridge Mastodon 7 min later

   @zachleat I should add the IE thing to https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2016/08/11/feeling-old/ :)

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 10 min later

      @sil haha yes

   2. Stuart Langridge Mastodon 19 min later

      The Lion King happened closer to The Sound of Music than to today.
      goddammit
      @zachleat

      1. Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 Mastodon 6 hr later

         @sil @zachleat Cleopatra is closer (in time, anyway) to us than she was to the Great Pyramid of Giza's construction.

   3. yaygya Mastodon 1 hr later

      @sil @zachleat this is discrimination

      1. Stuart Langridge Mastodon 1 hr later

         @yaygya @zachleat I will stand by that :)

   4. Ben Cotton (he/him) Mastodon 1 hr later

      @sil you are a bad person, Stuart.

   5. Negative12DollarBill Mastodon 2 hr later

      @sil @zachleat
      Please make a bot which posts these to Mastodon once a day.

4. Private reply Mastodon 8 min later
5. Chris Ferdinandi Mastodon 14 min later

   @zachleat I'm not old, you're old

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 21 min later

      @cferdinandi I’m old, you’re not old

6. Matthias Ott Mastodon 35 min later

   @zachleat I recently realized: My birth is closer in time to the end of WW II than now.

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 39 min later

      @matthiasott oh so this is what my own medicine tastes like

      …I don’t like it

      1. Matthias Ott Mastodon 53 min later

         @zachleat 😂

   2. Keith J Grant Mastodon 56 min later

      @matthiasott @zachleat holy shit

      In high school, I had a class on US History since 1945. And now I realize I've lived through most of that topic 😳

   3. Iwillyeah Mastodon 1 hr later

      @matthiasott @zachleat ohhhh shit.

   4. Gabriel N Mastodon 1 hr later

      @matthiasott @zachleat [tries to erase the thread from his mind, looks away, but not for long: he’s doomed]

   5. Texty the Bard Mastodon 3 hr later

      @matthiasott @zachleat Wait a sec... the math on that... 26...

      ah, fuck.

   6. OldTurk🗽Focus: #FreePeltier Mastodon 3 hr later

      @matthiasott @zachleat I refuse to do that math. Simply never will happen

      1. OldTurk🗽Focus: #FreePeltier Mastodon 3 hr later

         @matthiasott @zachleat AAAAAAAAAAAAA
         My brain did the math without me asking
         AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
         It’s not even close!
         AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
         It wants to check WWI !!! Make it stop!!!

7. Simon Cox Mastodon 51 min later

   @zachleat

   I saw both…

   1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 53 min later

      @simoncox amazing!!

      1. Simon Cox Mastodon 1 hr later

         @zachleat old.

8. Keith J Grant Mastodon 55 min later

   @zachleat next stop: Internet Explorer *on* the moon!

   1. Noah Liebman Mastodon 1 hr later

      @keithjgrant @zachleat yet here we are

      (Edit: to be clear, not *your* websites. Just a general state of the world)

9. Alan is @cogdog 🇨🇦 Mastodon 56 min later

   @zachleat Hah! "This moon best traveled to in Apollo 11"

10. Michelle Hughes Mastodon 1 hr later

    @zachleat

    In the Apollo program, they achieved amazing feats with startlingly little technology.

    In Internet Explorer, just the opposite happened.

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    2. Khleedril Mastodon 2 hr later

       @MegaMichelle @zachleat Also landing on the moon had never been done before Apollo; Explorer was just a facsimile of someone else's trailblazing.

11. ladyteruki Mastodon 1 hr later

    @zachleat ...is it something I said, or...?

12. Timo Geusch Mastodon 1 hr later

    @zachleat @vkc From the “stuff that makes you feel old” department.

13. William Whitaker Mastodon 2 hr later

    @zachleat If it's any consolation, the moon landing was closer in time to the Lascaux cave paintings than the release of IE is to the eventual death of the sun.

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14. Robert Jan Schutten Mastodon 2 hr later

    @zachleat Get out of here with that nonsense!

15. Sir Osis of Liver Mastodon 2 hr later

    @zachleat

    And here I was having such a good day.

16. Tucker Teague Mastodon 2 hr later

    @zachleat
    New to the Internet? 👉 Click here.

    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 17 hr later

       @tuckerteague I miss those huge animated loaders browsers used to have

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18. James 🦉 #FBPE Mastodon 2 hr later

    @zachleat My favourite is Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than the building of the pyramids.

19. LasDivine Mastodon 2 hr later

    @zachleat stop that

20. Jason Bunston Mastodon 2 hr later

    @zachleat and still remember it superceding NCSA Mosaic and Netscape Navigator on our uni lab computers.

    And also how dare you.

21. Ricardus Mastodon 3 hr later

    @zachleat It's amazing because I remember the Windows 95 release so very well. Gates made it a huge event. Almost a cultural event.

22. Andrew Mastodon 3 hr later

    @zachleat

23. OldTurk🗽Focus: #FreePeltier Mastodon 3 hr later

    @zachleat what about NCSA Mosaic?

24. Alex Weatherall Mastodon 4 hr later

    @zachleat This has been true for at least a year.

    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 17 hr later

       @aweatherall I only just had this thought yesterday and I am sorry for not thinking it earlier

       1. Alex Weatherall Mastodon 1 day later

          @zachleat I forgive you :)

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26. Doreen32128 ready to rumble! Mastodon 5 hr later

    @zachleat Well, that’s seems like crazy talk, but I guess it’s not.

27. wirepair Mastodon 6 hr later

    @zachleat screw you too buddy! :cries in being old:

    1. Zach Leatherman Mastodon 17 hr later

       @wirepair 🤗😭

28. Sia Karamalegos Bluesky March 31, 2025

    Why are you trying to make me feel old

    1. Zach Leatherman Bluesky March 31, 2025

       sorry (not sorry?) sorry (not) sorry? sorry

    2. Ingvar Stepanyan Bluesky April 1, 2025

       Zach woke up and chose violence

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31. naugtur Bluesky April 1, 2025

    😵‍💫