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Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by hilariously on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @03:26AM (#48729542)
I left community college after a week because my "computer" teacher required us to change our monitors to 640x480 and print out ever step that we completed in things like Notepad or Configuring the Desktop and then every day we'd punch it out and would add it to a three ring binder of all the things we've done.

Full Color.

Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by wccrawford on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @05:29AM (#48730334)
I took a computer class in college (like 25 years ago now?) and corrected the teacher multiple times every class. And it was like 95% things that were in the book that was issued, so I could even point out the page it was on. It was absolutely embarrassing.
Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by Tor3 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @06:17AM (#48730619)
In college I one year had a physics teacher who refused to believe that you could hear the harmonics of a guitar string simply by lightly touching the string at the right place, e.g. in the middle (12th fret) to hear the octave. Nothing could convince him that this was possible. That year was when several of us spent a good part of the week bowling in a nearby bowling hall, either because we didn't have to take the class (the curriculum was years behind what we had already done before college), or the teachers were so incompetent that there was no point attending. Fortunately the other educational years (everything after middle school, that year excepted) were great though.
Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by yoz-y on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @07:34AM (#48731194)
640x480 in 16 colors is the resolution as it was prescribed in the Bible.
Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by jagged-chisel on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:21AM (#48731685)
Amen
Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by markhahn on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @01:54PM (#48736507)
though shalt not wear garments of mixed pallettes
Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by tuwtuwtuwtuw on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @03:52PM (#48738316)
Terry Davis quote?

> God said 640×480 16 colour is a covenant like circumcision.

https://clotmag.com/oped/deus-ex-machina-deconstructing-digi...

Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by chasd00 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @08:47AM (#48731985)
if i may rant, my middle school and high school aged kids have to literally take pictures of their homework assignments with their chromebook camera then put it the pictures in a google slides deck then submit the deck through a form all to just turn in their paper HW assignment! ridiculous.
Re:Announcing .self: A New Top-Level Domain Designed to Supp... by Aeolun on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @12:55PM (#48735569)
Can’t you just hand it in?