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From the front page, "This site is called antipope due to a typing error long ago in the pre-history of the web. If you want to read about it, here's the histor
by eesmith 3y ago
From the front page, "This site is called antipope due to a typing error long ago in the pre-history of the web. If you want to read about it, here's the history" linking to https://www.antipope.org/charlie/old/antipope.html https://www.antipope.org/charlie/old/antipope.html .
> Antipope acquired its name due to a drunken mistake in 1991. ... "What sitename do you want?" ... "I said, "How about autopope.uucp?" ... "Okay." Hic. Burp. And the next day, I was the somewhat bemused owner of a site called antipope.uucp .. And of course, it seemed reasonable in 1996 to register antipope.org and hang it off my own server in 1997, when I finally got around to a colocation deal.
> So Antipope is not a significant name; it's just a communications error. You have been warned.
- pavlov 3y agoThanks for providing context for the joke.
- eesmith 3y agoWhat makes the joke not work is that cstross is really the autopope, drunkenly mislabeled the antipope. You can clearly see he still provides pontifications. If Musk is the opposite of the autopope, what does that make him?
- FFP999 3y agoA manualpope. Same basic function as an autopope, but needs a human operator.