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Scott E. Fahlman proposed using :-) and :-( to mark jokes and not-jokes respectively in internet posts in 1982, and they (and lots of variations) have been in use ever since. IBM’s Codepage 437 character set (as used by the original PC) had two dedicated smiley characters even before that.
There was no golden age of the internet where there were no emoticons.

Born in the early 80s, the 90s been my youth. Reading through the comments here I realize there’s nothing I miss from the 90s. Every single thing mentioned here has either been replaced by something better, or isn’t gone in the first place.

Is there really not a single answer saying “I would rather not make everybody’s lives more inconvenient just because I could”?

If there would be the kind of budget you’re talking about, they’d just buy a house, or rather three (one to live in, two to rent out, to re-finance the other one) and that whole question would be obsolete.

but is a given that the more expensive the wedding is, the shorter the marriage might be.

So have a dead cheap wedding and the marriage will last forever?

Blink has a younger code base that’s easier to build on. Gecko has been around since the early 90s and has some ancient evils lurking deep within.

They both are of very similar age actually. The old Netscape rendering engine originated in the early 90s, but Gecko was a rewrite from scratch that was first used in a browser in 1998.
Blink is based on KHTML which is based on khtmlw, which was written at some point in the mid-90s, but as well saw a complete rewrite in 1999.

It didn’t occur to me that you wanted to say “until”, my response would have been much shorter otherwise ;).

Thanks for the pointer. This really looks much more pleasant than vanilla Lemmy, I’ll have to keep an eye on that.

Since a month ago, before the blackout, he build kbin by himself

Per that link you gave, ernest started building kbin in January 2021, launched the first instance in September 2021 and started to work on kbin full-time in the end of 2023 (EDIT: 2022, of course; always refreshingly embarrassing to make mistakes when correcting others). Not directly mentioned in that link, but hinted by the graph there, the kbin.social instance launched in April, now close to three months ago.

That doesn’t seem to work for kbin, does it?

Not only resources for moderation, you would also have to pay the servers. When running multiple fediverse servers, and having some expectations in terms of availability and performance, costs sum up. Your funds are limited, and if they come from donations, those people did not donate for you to spend on additional, not directly project-related infrastructure, but to work on your actual projects.

You click a link to some fediverse content somewhere, and actually land on the instance where you have a login and can interact with it.

According to https://how-i-met-your-mother.fandom.com/wiki/Eating_a_Sandwich they are eating sandwiches in 14 episodes (mostly in flashbacks, though).

They are eating sandwiches when they are smoking weed. They are smoking actual cigarettes when they are smoking cigarettes. Ted’s kids are shocked when they learn this, I don’t remember them reacting to the sandwich stories.

How I Met Your Mother literally had an episode only about smoking, revealing that everybody in the main group has smoked at one point, and they all do in that episode.

Besides that, isn’t the “smoking is cool” phase in movies a thing of the past already? Most movies don’t show anyone smoking, and if, I would say it’s most often not the hero, but often some shady guys.

Number 1 is wrong. Salmonellae primarily live on the shell, but they possibly propagate to everything that touches the shell, including obviously the inner part of the egg.

Number 2 is good to know: The lion stamp eggs are from chicken that have been vaccinated against the most common salmonella infections. There is no 100% guarantee that it is effective, but together with hygienic measures and regular controls, they can be seen as virtually salmonella-free. Worth noting that vaccination is a requirement in many countries (e.g. Germany), and EU-wide for big farms.