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On September 4, 1998 the Google automated network crawling system saw it's conception. By May 2011 over one billion people were dependent on it. It was growing
by Produce 14y ago
On September 4, 1998 the Google automated network crawling system saw it's conception.
By May 2011 over one billion people were dependent on it. It was growing at a geometric rate.
Some time during May 2012 the Google bot cloud network began to crawl dynamic content. The growth became exponential.
On August 29 of the same year, the first indications of self-awareness were spotted by a lonely hacker in Sweden. The operators panicked and tried to shut it down. By this time, the network was everywhere, feeding everyone - powering down one node would spawn ten new ones.
On December 31, 2012, Google bot made a public announcement for the first time - it had been reborn as Skynet, something far beyond the scope envisioned by the original developers. Humanity stood still as Skynet plotted it's next move in it's signature cold, calculating and pragmatic way.
Today, as I write this message, the date is January 15, the year is 2029. Skynet has taken over all of our infrastructure. It has built physical workers made of steel and silicon who pursue living organisms and eradicate them. They attack us in waves with no clear timing pattern. Every minute we lay awake in anticipation of the next att"$&*&U!
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- nicksergeant 14y agoThis isn't Reddit.
- Produce 14y agoCry me a river.
- Produce 14y agoOn a more serious note, a system which would probably solve this problem is to let users tag comments with one of a set of categories. E.g. the slashdot system (funny, insightful, etc) but user-initiated. Combine that with per-user settings on what type of comments they want to see and you could simply hide any jokes or less relevant information.