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Re:Announcing WCGI: WebAsseAmbly and CGI by mch82 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @04:29PM (#35473954)
> Like a world that never got past the horse and buggy

At lunch one day a colleague explained that the size of the space shuttle could be linked to the width of two horses walking on a Roman road :-)

One of my favorite lunch breaks of all time.

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Re:Announcing WCGI: WebAsseAmbly and CGI by qup on Thursday April 06, 2023 @04:37PM (#35474051)
Give us the recap
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Re:Announcing WCGI: WebAsseAmbly and CGI by mrec on Thursday April 06, 2023 @05:20PM (#35474640)
http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html

I'd be very leery of trusting the specifics too much. E.g. the reference to "Roman war chariots", which are not a thing the Romans ever used.

Snopes entry: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/railroad-gauge-chariots/

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Re:Announcing WCGI: WebAsseAmbly and CGI by qup on Thursday April 06, 2023 @06:02PM (#35475147)
Nice, so dude was actually just reciting an email FWD he studied to sound interesting.

God, I had forgotten about those email FWDs. The old people I know totally abandoned email.

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Re:Announcing WCGI: WebAsseAmbly and CGI by KyeRussell on Friday April 07, 2023 @05:20AM (#35479781)
That’s a bit cynical and dickish. Maybe he just read it, found it enjoyable, and remembered it? God.
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