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So I was having a problem: in IE, my PNGs didn’t match my GIFs or my CSS colors, in RGB.

And it was pissing me off.

Evidently, this is an insurmountable problem.

Thanks, web.

You know, before we had weblogs, we had a little thing called “Finger”. Now, with “Finger” (or more precisely, finger, lower case), one would check if another user were online at a certain host, and, if not online, perhaps read a brief message they had left for you. This is how things were done. You’d post some interesting thoughts in your .plan file and people would see that when they … *ahem* … “fingered” you.

Of course, this could never work out, a) because it let people discover user names on a host, to attempt login brute-force attacks against, and b) it lead to discussions like the one I had once with a fellow geek, before a mystified and mildly horrified third party:

Geek1 “So, can you just finger anyone?”
Geek2: “yeah, assuming you know their name”
Geek1: “Anywhere?”
Geek2: “Most anywhere, some people are paranoid and don’t let you finger them”

…as you can see, this leads directly to the formation of weblogs.

QED