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Re:The internet is an SEO landfill by wbl on Sunday June 23, 2019 @03:12PM (#20258021)
The guy who posted the story of splicing a 500kW cable wasn't looking for money. He wanted to amuse people and thanks to him we got amused endlessly. The costs of putting things online are $5 per month at Digital Ocean.
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Re:The internet is an SEO landfill by paulryanrogers on Sunday June 23, 2019 @03:38PM (#20258184)
> The costs of putting things online are $5 per month at Digital Ocean.

Plus the knowledge you can, and non-trivial technical expertise like: registering a domain, DNS configuration, setting up web software (even if "one click"), and maintaining it over time.

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Re:The internet is an SEO landfill by stordoff on Sunday June 23, 2019 @05:05PM (#20258653)
> the story of splicing a 500kW cable

Do you have a link to this? I've tried googling "splicing a 500kW cable" (and variants) and haven't found much relevant.

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Re:The internet is an SEO landfill by wbl on Sunday June 23, 2019 @07:00PM (#20259283)
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/ is the version I've found.
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Re:The internet is an SEO landfill by dasv on Monday June 24, 2019 @04:15AM (#20261454)
Warning (NSFW?): if you're coming from HN, the link redirects to this somewhat entertaining image https://imgur.com/32R3qLv
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