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This reminded me of one of my first web-dev projects as a teenager - the first one I showed my (recently passed) father, in which you were prompted to ask "Chuc
by devmor 2y ago
This reminded me of one of my first web-dev projects as a teenager - the first one I showed my (recently passed) father, in which you were prompted to ask "Chuck Norris" a yes or no question with a text box, and then would present you a yes or no answer with a suitable photo of the man himself.
I did some rudimentary string parsing on submit, and if the question started with a word like "Where", "How", "Why", "Who" and a few other words that signified the question couldn't be answered with Yes or No, it would show an angry photo of his face with the caption "Your question has angered chuck!" - I think I also gave it a 1% chance to randomly roll that result regardless.
My dad absolutely loved that little project, and reminded me of how funny he found it even this year shortly before we lost him, almost 2 decades after I'd made it.
Sorry this wasn't incredibly related to your submission, but I wanted to share a happy memory you just brought back to me with it.
- fooker 2y agoThis reminds me of the early web. So many fun websites like this. Now it's just silos controlled by megacorps, trying to outdo each other in competition for attention.
- b112 2y agoWell yes and no. I assure you, many many forums exist outside of Facebook, and mailing lists too. And endless, classic, non-https sites still exist too. They are just pages deep in Google's search results, especially with the entire first several pages of scrolling being their almost always wrong suggestions. And it doesn't help that verbatim is completely broken now, and that Google aliases search terms, and drops search terms, even when using quotes. A horrible design, and the result is all that goodness is harder to find. It's not siloed, it's Google only