I’m gonna cry
While that sounds like a The Onion piece, it would actually go some way towards saving the species, I think - if you can prove that they have emotions similar to ours (in this case, thanatophobia) then they’re no longer quite the “dumb animal that gets in the way of mining the rare minerals we need for our shiny new mobile phones” and might, actually, get protected from corporations or poachers once in a while.
Just saying.
every book you’ve ever read is just a different combination of 26 letters
Not true. Both “Gadsby” (Ernest Vincent Wright) and “A Void” (Georges Perec) only use 25. No ‘E’s.
The Internet at the Dawn of Facebook
Facebook launched in 2004. Today, it has more users than the entire Internet had in 2004.
That line says it all.
And there have been other services before with a higher percentage of the Internet, or even really loyal fan bases, that we thought would be around forever and they’ve gone. Ten years time, we’ll probably be saying “Facebook? Oh yeah, I remember that. Who’d have thought THAT would have folded?”
