Evolution of the Web, as Told With Cats - Neatorama

Pete Cashmore of Mashable made this short and sweet description of the evolution of the web, from Blogger to Twitter, as told with ... cats: http://mashable.com/2007/03/11/twitter/comment-page-2/ - via Locust & Honey

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Was this necessary?

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Cat Blogs are so Played!

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I no I ain't three brite (akording to me mum) but what is the go wiff this twitta thing. Wha makes it 'so good'?

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Twitter made ABC News with a story about corporate types watching it for complaints. A bigwig from Comcast personally got in touch with a customer who complained on Twitter.

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Man, I'm missing out. I need to get a cat.

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Cue Titanic music

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I can fee how thif would make lotf of funny fommentf.

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That'f funny.

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...all in the name of the purfuit of happinefs!

(initial and medial s written as a long s (f) but final s looks like our modern s)

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I mashed up an antique map from 1738 and rewrote the title to be: "A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe : according to the the Ancient discoveries and most general Divisions of Geospatial Art" using the long S. So Geosfatial = Geospatial. In the process of remixing the map I realized 18th century typography is not easy to replicate!

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Correct. As ufual, Neatorama has efpecially intelligent commenters.

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teeth were usually knocked out during sailors brawls...

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why would he hyphenate the word "agree" into "a-
gree" ???? that makes no fenfe.

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They just had different hyphenation conventions than we do. Also paper was at a premium, so they often hypnenated in whatever way they felt would save the most space.

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