Frances Larina

@grickle@mstdn.social

Awwww, that’s sweet!

@Rodeo @BedSharkPal

That may be somewhat biased if most people don’t jaywalk and instead concentrate at intersections. California just made jaywalking legal, so we’ll find out in a few years I suppose.

@Provider

USENET

Specifically, alt.hacks, which concerned ways to simplify computing (as it was called) tasks - or everyday life tasks, too.

Especially the ob-hack.

There was a rule that to stay on topic, every post had to have a hack of some sort. An obligatory hack, or “ob-hack”. So a fun sort of footnote to postings quickly evolved, as follows:

"…and that’s how a bill becomes a law, and why so much of the Internet has already been privatized.

ob-hack: connect the turbo case button to the enable/disable pins on an option card to reclaim the IRQ or interrupt."