When did the “mostly” get added?
Also, this is a little stale:
http://boingboing.net/directory.html
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Whoa, that was… interesting.
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Somebody must be changing things, because this is what the front page looks like for me:
No ads, and I don’t run an ad-blocker.
The “about us” link brought up this:
I couldn’t find anything that said “mostly”, though. Where was it?
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It’s a blast from the past. I did like the fact that even in those days they were recommending Pee-Wee’s Playhouse Vol. 1-8 Gift Set.
Also this meta tag in the source of the page is great:
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Adobe PageMill 3.0 Mac">
Most links are dead but the “new picks” one is also an interesting trip into the year 2000:
http://boingboing.net/newpicks.html
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<title>Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things</title>
I almost ever see titles due to tabs, but I’d finally closed them all and saw the “mostly” which I hadn’t seen before, though maybe I’m oblivious and it’s been that way for years.
S/mostly/occasionally/g
Sometime between 14 Sep - 18 Sep 2015
14 Sep:
<title>Boing Boing</title>
18 Sep:
<title>Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things</title>
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After a decade of disease, despair, degloved cat faces, artisanal russian murders, etc, it was Donald Trump that finally had me sigh and change “wonderful things” to “mostly wonderful things” in our <title>
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I thought you finally got sick of all the readers bitching at you about “this topic isn’t wonderful at all!”
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How did you find the diff between Sept.14/18?
archive.org wayback would show it
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Beschizza in “Trump…mostly wonderful” shock!
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What my boy, Sher -er- @beschizza, said…
Boing Boing
Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things
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