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It's really worth to read, at least partially, the One True Thread [1] - a thread on XKCD forums when people were discussing the comic as it unfolded. It is rea
by M4v3R 13y ago
It's really worth to read, at least partially, the One True Thread [1] - a thread on XKCD forums when people were discussing the comic as it unfolded. It is really interesting to see how they reacted to first frame (at which point it wasn't known that it will last 4 months), and then how they began to dissect every frame after that.
[1] http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=101043 http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=101043
- mherdeg 13y agoI like the idea of hundreds (?) of people obsessively consuming obscure media and discussing it in a Web forum, mostly because I thought it was a nice plot device in William Gibson's 2003 "Pattern Recognition" with "the Footage".
- brazzy 13y agoAnd a great subject of parody in xkcd itself: http://xkcd.com/915/ http://xkcd.com/915/
- viraptor 13y agoDoes it get more obscure than _why's printer spool documents a couple of months ago?
- LanceH 13y agoObviously it gets more obscure. Just think of all the things you don't know about.
- foobarbazqux 13y agoNot to mention the things that are only ever vague ideas that may or may not occur to isolated individuals in your lifetime depending on your response to this thread.
- dbarlett 13y agoDone even better in Ready Player One http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0307887448 http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0307887448