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My favorite part of this is https://www.xkcd.com/792/ https://www.xkcd.com/792/

• weinzierl 10y ago
  Just out of curiosity: What happened in March 1997? A list of Historical Events in March 1997[1] shows nothing relevant. [1] http://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1997/march http://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1997/march
  • bbcbasic 10y ago
    https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/792:_Password_Reuse https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/792:_Password_Reu...
  • averagewall 10y ago
    The explanation on the XKCD page says: "This could possibly refer to the March 26, 1997 incident in San Diego, California, where 39 Heaven's Gate cultists committed mass suicide at their compound. It is a plausible explanation, since one of them was the brother of Nichelle Nichols (a Star Trek actress), so the event got a big resonance in nerd circles (and Randall often refers to Star Trek in xkcd). However, given Black Hat's strange behavior, it could be anything, even Bill Clinton banning federal funding for human cloning research."
  • ekimekim 10y ago
    I always read that as http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoodleIncident (a purposely dangling reference because the viewer's imagination is more effective than anything you can say)