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[–]ethan_miller 0 points1 point ago

Fake but still funny!

[–]barc0001 0 points1 point ago

People get shit wrong all the time. In the late 90s I was talking with my boss at the time about developing our product with a back end that ran on Linux using MySQL instead of the NT4/SQL Server back end it had at that time because a lot of our smaller customers were wary about dropping that much money to license NT and SQL server just to use our product.

His response? "Forget it. Linux is 'a fad'."

[–]Gaml 2 points3 points ago

By Dotte Comme? I smell a fake.

[–]csixty4 0 points1 point ago

Yeah, a name like that wouldn't have worked in a mainstream publication until 1996 or later.

[–]hudders 0 points1 point ago

There are a lot of inaccuracies that clearly show it to be a fake. One that jumps out at me is how they mention pictures being sent via the Internet when the first image wasn't uploaded to the until 1992.

http://istwitterwrong.tumblr.com/post/30876620628/did-the-sun-publish-a-mocking-story-in-1991-comparing is quite interesting.

[–]dirtymatt 0 points1 point ago

The fact that the by-line is Dot Comme is a huge hint that it's a joke.