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minus-squareDomiku@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoI love Game Pass, but I don’t like monopolies. I wish regulators had blocked this. Also: https://www.theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741
minus-squareMothra@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoI was laughing at the onion article and stopped- was that really published in 1998 ?!?!? Or is the date also a joke?
minus-squareMangoKangaroo@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoWikipedia says that The Onion has had a website since '96, so it’s definitely possible! (Also, TIL The Onion has existed since 1988.)
minus-squareMothra@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoI knew the onion is old, but didn’t imagine they would keep a website with old articles still up!
minus-squarewim@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoWhy not? It costs nothing, appart from transforming the old format into something the current site can work with, or more likely, have the old site support tbe old format.
minus-squareMars@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoSome media organizations have started nuking old articles to please the Google algorithm
minus-squarehobovision@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 years agoIt reads like it’s from 98. The references to Blockbuster, Daimler-Chrysler, McDonnell Douglas, and Bill Clinton tipped me off this was an old one.
I love Game Pass, but I don’t like monopolies. I wish regulators had blocked this. Also: https://www.theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741
I was laughing at the onion article and stopped- was that really published in 1998 ?!?!? Or is the date also a joke?
Wikipedia says that The Onion has had a website since '96, so it’s definitely possible! (Also, TIL The Onion has existed since 1988.)
I knew the onion is old, but didn’t imagine they would keep a website with old articles still up!
Why not? It costs nothing, appart from transforming the old format into something the current site can work with, or more likely, have the old site support tbe old format.
Some media organizations have started nuking old articles to please the Google algorithm
It reads like it’s from 98. The references to Blockbuster, Daimler-Chrysler, McDonnell Douglas, and Bill Clinton tipped me off this was an old one.