Yahoo aquires Tumblr

Re:Yahoo aquires Tumblr by beseku on Monday May 20, 2013 @08:43AM (#5737342)

I'm assuming you don't live or visit the UK often, as that poster is everywhere and is used in various forms by huge numbers of companies. There is absolutely no political subtext to its use anymore.

It's a meme, the equivalent to using a cat image.

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Re:Yahoo aquires Tumblr by mherdeg on Monday May 20, 2013 @09:36AM (#5737621)

I live and work in central London.

Having seen the poster everywhere for a while now, it has been hard to avoid learning a bit about the image's history, including the recent hilarity with the EU trademark ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8785585/Battle-rages-over-Ke... ) and the image's organic growth in popularity from 2005 ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7869458.stm ).

I think it's funny to see people use things in apparent ignorance of their historical context; for example I was totally bummed that http://www.gophercon.com/ wasn't about the protocol.

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Re:Yahoo aquires Tumblr by cbr on Monday May 20, 2013 @04:35PM (#5739868)

    people use things in apparent ignorance of their
    historical context

The people behind the Go language are definitely aware of the gopher protocol.

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Re:Yahoo aquires Tumblr by aetimmes on Monday May 20, 2013 @08:50AM (#5737385)

A meme that Tumblr uses pretty frequently, at that.

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Re:Yahoo aquires Tumblr by shardling on Monday May 20, 2013 @09:20AM (#5737531)

It's actually pretty damn common in the US these days, too.

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