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Re:The Homepage of the Oldternet on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @08:17AM (#36771023)
It's funny you say that, because this specific site has images as the only children to the anchor HTML elements. Which renders the text mostly useless from an a11y point of view.

  <font size="2">
    <a href="dmg_base.htm">
      <img src="dmgbase.gif" border="0">
    </a>
    <br>
    Game Boy
  </font>
Re:Games for IBM AS/400 on Saturday November 27, 2021 @12:05AM (#29357622)
I worked for a company that had Tetris and an analog clock app installed on their AS/400
Re:Don’t be spooky on Saturday November 06, 2021 @09:45PM (#29135694)
Unless it's an actual hard conversation and you're not allowed to talk about it without HR present. Those are great fun...
I like your cat
This "zoomers are so dumb" argument bothers me as much as the PC culture.

It's like generational differences are a new thing, do people really think your teacher back in the day thought progressive educational practices were effective. I mean capital punishment really worked wonders.

> Even before the advent of the internets, catching students cheating was generally not particularly hard. ... Catching this sort of malfeasance has gotten even easier with the development of plagiarism detection software.

> ...students use umlauts in place of quotation marks and acute accent marks in place of apostrophes

Those students figured out a way around the plagiarism detection.