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		<title>Musings on the Internet how it used to be</title>
		<link>http://www.stupidstupidity.co.uk/2009/03/01/musings-on-the-internet-how-it-used-to-be/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richie G</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life, the Universe and Everything]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a bit recently on how the Internet has changed a little bit.  For instance, I first discovered Google when first introduced to the Internet, by the fact that Yahoo!&#8217;s search was back then powered by Google.  I thought that if the Yahoo! search is being powered by Google, then surely I&#8217;d get [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking a bit recently on how the Internet has changed a little bit.  For instance, I first discovered Google when first introduced to the Internet, by the fact that Yahoo!&#8217;s search was back then powered by Google.  I thought that if the Yahoo! search is being powered by Google, then surely I&#8217;d get quicker results by going directly there.  Now Google owns my life, not only in how I search the Internet, but I recently became the owner of a G1 mobile phone.</p>
<p>Yesterday while I was in the shower, for some reason I started thinking about the designs that have been on this very website in the past. I remember posting a copy of an old design which I found that had been done in MS Word, and other designs had been completed in MS Publisher and Dreamweaver before I started coding the pure HTML of sites.  One design that I remembered yesterday was composed mostly of lego, where all the page headings and the like were created in Lego and then photographed. I mention designs because I&#8217;m currently contemplating switching over to WordPress so I&#8217;ve actually got a website that works&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also been looking at some old websites that are still around, and earlier on today came across this little snippet of text: &#8220;If your browser can cope with it, there is a bigger version of this photo (1402×1170 pixels, 168 KB).&#8221;</p>
<p>I very much doubt that you&#8217;d need to put that on images any more&#8230;</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also forgotton what the main point of this post was except to say that I&#8217;m still alive&#8230; Take care all.</p>
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		<title>Banana: Reprise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richie G</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pre WordPress Posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[banana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ebay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an idea that I might be able to salvage some of my old posts thanks to Google&#8217;s Caching system, and I came across the infamous Ebay Banana stuff, but stuff I haven&#8217;t seen yet&#8230; until now that is. It would appear that while a lot of pepople over here thought the Banana was [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had an idea that I might be able to salvage some of my old posts thanks to Google&#8217;s Caching system, and I came across the infamous Ebay Banana stuff, but stuff I haven&#8217;t seen yet&#8230; until now that is.  It would appear that while a lot of pepople over here thought the Banana was funny, a lot of people were really taking the piss&#8230; Observe these forum posts:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.driverheaven.net/archive/index.php/t-34706.html">DriverHeaven.net</a>: where I am referred to as &#8216;A Stupid Brit&#8217;, where &#8216;renovation&#8217; reveals himself as the guy who went to pay £30,000 for the Banana, &#8216;MIG-31&#8242; implys he&#8217;s bought two things off eBay without paying, and British irony seems to be lost on these people.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-32045.html">PCA Forums</a>: which looks to be the same site, where the original SS Blog post was quoted, the potential buyer gives a sarcastic apology, and informs us that this was reported to eBay before the high price appeared.</li>
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<p>However, a few important points are made here &#8211; well, one &#8211; and that is that the Ebay Banana would have cost me in listing fees, especially should it have gone through at £30,100.  I&#8217;m not sure how much I would have owed Ebay had that have happened, but even so it is a good point they have there.</p>
<p>Still, I got my fifteen minutes of fame out of it.</p>
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