AatubeJul 31, 2023

TIL during the early days of the internet, companies tried to prohibit linking to some of their sites. The linked site linked to all of them during half of 2002

In one of the even more absurd cases:...

https://web.archive.org/web/20130115025845/http://www.dontlink.com/

Don't Link to Us!

Show threadSelmafuddJul 31, 2023
Man the guessing the url part just trigger a memory for me but I can’t remember what the site was… Was a website back in early/mid 2000s that used to do a girl of the day post, it was originally a clothed and naked shot but for some reason around 2006 that stopped having the links for the naked shits, you used to have to manually add a N to the end of the url… Anyone remember what that site was, page style was heavily black with fluro green accents
Show threadBobbyTablesJul 31, 2023

I don’t know that specific site but lots of porn sites used to do those “preview of the day” things with a date or iterator in the URL.

I remember writing a simple script/page (must have been around 2002) where you could just paste a URL with wildcards and the wildcards could be iterated from x to y. It even checked if the generated linked page existed or threw https errors. It was amazing, how many links I collected and never visited again. The things you do for porn…

Show threadTangent5280

Nothing can stand between a horny 15 year old and his porn.

PS How did you get the monospace username display? How do I get the same? Can we do this for any font?

Jul 31, 2023 at 9:35amWeb
Show threadBobbyTablesJul 31, 2023
You can set a displayed name in your profile and you can use Unicode characters for it. I use an Android app called “Stylish Text” for conversion but I am sure there are countless other options out there.
Show threadRob T FireflyJul 31, 2023
Those fancy fonts use extended Unicode sets which can look cute but which are really bad for accessibility. (sound on)
Kent C. Dodds 🌌 on Twitter

“You 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 it's 𝒸𝓊𝓉ℯ to 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 your tweets and usernames 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖜𝖆𝖞. But have you 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 to what it 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 with assistive technologies like 𝓥𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓞𝓿𝓮𝓻?”

Twitter
Show threadBobbyTablesJul 31, 2023
Oh, wow, thanks for bringing this to my attention! I had no idea. I mean now that I know it, it seems kinda logical… The classic mistake of a person not dependent on accessibility tech.
Show threadoctopersonJul 31, 2023
I just see a row of ‘missing character’ glyphs
Show threadBobbyTablesJul 31, 2023
I changed it back to the standard font. If it’s more accessible that way I’m all for it.