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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by rhaps0dy on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:35PM (#34023276)
> fail whale

do you mean "whale fall"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_fall

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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by borkt on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:42PM (#34023332)
No, op didnt
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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by vedran on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:43PM (#34023336)
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1987/fail-whale

> The fail whale is a graphic that appears when the social networking website Twitter.com is experiencing technical difficulties. The image is of a whale being lifted by 8 orange birds and was created by Yiying Lu.

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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by chrisbaker98 on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:44PM (#34023348)
Back in the day, Twitter's error page showed a cartoon picture of a whale, which became nicknamed "the fail whale". The fail whale was a common sight on Twitter circa 2009 because the site couldn't scale fast enough to match the demand and errors were frequent - that's the era GP is referring to by the fail whale times.
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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by neilv on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:55PM (#34023463)
The SuperNews documentary on Twitter elaborates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Ff2X_3P_4&t=168s
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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by croes on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:45PM (#34023351)
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/1987/fail-whale
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Re:John Carmack Leaves Meta by diab0lic on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:46PM (#34023362)
The commenter likely meant “fail whale”[0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Outages

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