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5 Internet annoyances that are way older than the Internet

*The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Date: 2012-05-23 06:44 pm (UTC)
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Not exactly Internet, but I've always been fond of the James Thurber story ("File and Forget") in which (pre-computer) he orders two copies of his book and gets two copies of Grandma Was a Nudist. Despite clear correspondence explaining the problem, by the end of the story, he has dozens of copies of the wrong book, and has a bonfire on his lawn.

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