• Archive for May 27th, 2005

    Such a lovely turn of phrase.

    by  • May 27, 2005 • Personal, Technology

    I find this quote to be far too amusing: In the Before Time, “Delete” meant “Throw away irretrievably”. About three milliseconds after the “delete” command was written, somebody wrote an “undelete” program. These “undelete” programs were necessarily kind of dodgy — it’s the computer version of picking the eclair out of the garbage can and [...]

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