On: I Blame the Babel Fish

[tarr11]

Some thoughts on the internet from Adams' himself (1999)

http://www.douglasadams.com/dna/19990901-00-a.html

[kwhitefoot → tarr11]

There are not many people who I mourn for but DNA is one of them. I wish he were still around to make gentle fun of us all.

[smhenderson → tarr11]

Not found?

The requested URL /dna/19990901-00-a.html was not found on this server.

Apache/2.4.10 (Debian) Server at www.douglasadams.com Port 80

Would love to see what you were talking about, love Douglas Adams!

[glandium → smhenderson]

https://web.archive.org/web/20160923110912/http://www.dougla...

[smhenderson → glandium]

Thank you.

[jacquesm → smhenderson]

That's very strange, it works for me.

https://pastebin.com/5vYzF0rb

[smhenderson → jacquesm]

Hmmm, on my phone, can't think of why. A sibling post gave me an archive link.

I normally don't comment on broken anything, I assume it must be me... But, Douglas Adams, I had to see that!

[glandium → smhenderson]

It's not you. I got the archive link because I got a 404 in the first place (through https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/no-more-404s )

[jacquesm → tarr11]

Thank you for that, I'll add the link to the article. I never knew he wrote this, it's eerie, and I wonder what he would write nearly two decades later. 49...

[icc97 → tarr11]

> ‘technology’, as the computer scientist Bran Ferren memorably defined it, is ‘stuff that doesn’t work yet.’