Wikipedia to the Moon

Re:Wikipedia to the Moon by DanBC on Thursday April 21, 2016 @05:53PM (#11545602)

I do sometimes wonder what the future people are going to make of the hundreds of thousands of words of argument over en-dash, em-dash, hyphen and minus.

Mexican-American war had twenty thousand words of discussion over what dash to use, and that knowledge isn't transferable even to other dashes used in title on WP.

Here's 15,000 words on dashes. The result? No concensus.

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Re:Wikipedia to the Moon by jsmthrowaway on Thursday April 21, 2016 @06:21PM (#11545738)

Memes, too. "You mean ancient humans argued as an interconnected species over the color of a dress?"

I'm waiting for the meme that conclusively starts a war. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 72 point Impact. That'll be a fun one for future history books to explain.

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