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11 months agoUSENET
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."
@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.