In high school twenty years ago, my IT class teacher told me that technically speaking, a collection of computer mice of different styles (that is, not all the same brand/shape/color/etc.) are actually called mouses, not mice. I always thought he was joking, but apparently it is/was a considered correct at some point:
Just consider their Large Hamster Collider!
It’s a travesty, and last I head, they were colliding billions of hamster per second. You also got to ask what they do with the resulting elephants and whatnot coming out of those relativistic collisions.
“The scientists at the facility are believed to have worshipped or made sacrifices of their computer mice, due to their primitive minds’ beliefs that it would affect the outcome of their experiments.”
I think things like these have just become harder to find. There are some search engines which try to bring the "old" internet back to life like Marginalia Search.
In high school twenty years ago, my IT class teacher told me that technically speaking, a collection of computer mice of different styles (that is, not all the same brand/shape/color/etc.) are actually called mouses, not mice. I always thought he was joking, but apparently it is/was a considered correct at some point:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_mouse#Etymology
I miss the internet when it was like this.
It is still like this. You just have to drag yourself away from the big sites and you will find all manner of weirdness.
I love that CERN has such a strong bond with their animals. They are even monitoring the quantum entanglements of their sheep: https://home.cern/news/news/cern/cern-scientists-find-eviden...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43545349 ("CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep (home.cern)"; April 1, 2025)
And yet, not everything is so pretty at CERN.
Just consider their Large Hamster Collider! It’s a travesty, and last I head, they were colliding billions of hamster per second. You also got to ask what they do with the resulting elephants and whatnot coming out of those relativistic collisions.
The CERN Animal Shelter for Computer Mice is a non-profit organization maintained by CERN staff during their leisure time...
Reminds me of the fact that what to past or future civilisations perhaps looks dystopian or primitive, might just be jokes and a good time
“The scientists at the facility are believed to have worshipped or made sacrifices of their computer mice, due to their primitive minds’ beliefs that it would affect the outcome of their experiments.”
Not sure the Panicking pick depicts panicking though
Oh CERN folks, you beautiful people
The site is so simple yet has so much soul - a part of internet lost.
not lost is it? this site is still up
I think things like these have just become harder to find. There are some search engines which try to bring the "old" internet back to life like Marginalia Search.