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- shaun1018, on 10/12/2007, -6/+244For those of you thinking of the 70's metal band it's
Keep It Simple Stupid - ojk007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+146this turned out to be a very beneficial thing though, instead of a horrendously cluttered site like yahoo they have a great KISS page.
- fxmcleod, on 10/12/2007, -4/+114...huh i'd always thought of it as a testament to KISS
sometimes you just get lucky - shaun1018, on 10/12/2007, -1/+61Irony isn't a diabetic man getting hit by a sugar truck.
Irony is a diabetic man getting hit by a insulin truck. - laxwarrior, on 10/12/2007, -3/+61I googled it and its in fact true
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -19/+74digg founders still don't, har har
{/sarcasm} - Tredici, on 10/12/2007, -1/+52@Shaun1018
Actually, courtesy of George Carlin:
If a diabetic is hit by a truck, it's a normal death.
If a diabetic is hit by a sugar truck, it's an odd and tragic death.
If a diabetic is hit by an insulin truck, it's a coincidental and oddly poetic death.
But if a diabetic is on his way to get some insulin and he gets hit by an insulin truck, then that's ironic. - r00tus3r, on 10/12/2007, -8/+47So why didn't this just google and html tutorial ... oh wait ... never mind.
- dxgg, on 02/05/2008, -0/+35I don't know whether to applaud or shoot you.
- wastern, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35>>i literally die when I see people misuse words like that
if only that was true....... - notjamt9000, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com
- sorrow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+30Apparently you don't know how to turn off the caps lock either.. no wonder you don't know HTML.
- SaxxonPike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26I don't really care how much money you paid for your website design, if it's not user friendly, doesn't load fast or is too cluttered, I'm not likely to visit again. Which is why Google is nice. Boom, it's there. It's my start page because of its great utility and minimal size.
Though it's really only a shortcoming as an advantage, nothing never before seen, but interesting nonetheless. - Clbck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23eric bauman?
- 0004, on 07/04/2008, -2/+24these zombie stories keep coming back, don't they ??
the timestamp on the story in the title is
Wednesday, 12 January 2005
also posted almost a year ago at:
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Some_Interesting_Facts_About_Google - t3soro, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23thats a great point, i remember when mostly everyone still had dialup, the main reason i used google over yahoo or any other competitors was because of the relatively fast load time.
- OutThisLife, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22HTML is easy. PHP is easy. Design is hard.
- mindsnare, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20no, no it's not, just lucky
- Bhima, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21I don't why everyone is digging him down... I've been programming for decades in FORTRAN and C. I don't know HTML it's not my thing.
My older sister maintains COBOL for bean counters and the most she can do is myspace snippets.
I always thought different sorts of people did different sorts of things. - fatadamblog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18This is amazing because I thought It was on purpose that the founders made the search engine that way. Lightweight so even on Dial up you can do a quick search.
- Yossarko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18>>i literally die when I see people misuse words like that
Well, that's ironic...considering you misused "literally"... - patience, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Waste time learning code or spend time learning how to run a business.
Ideas are whats important. You can always hire a code genious to write it for you. - marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Didn't know that.
- nestafett, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I hate it when people mis use that word.
that is in no way ironic. - bariswheel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Why do these people always turn out to be the same type of douchebags? They're actions are so predictable it's not even funny. The caps lock was classic.
- nestafett, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9you make 6 million dollars a year?
sure ya do buddy, and I was gonna write a longer reply but Cameron Diaz is calling me from my bedroom.
ps if your income was based on people visiting your sites wouldn't you put a link to your site on your post? - tybris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yes. The good ol' table/frameset days. Too few have been through this mind-wrecking experience.
- mikewhite314, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Digg does.
- tybris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"Isn't it ironic that most people don't know the meaning of the word ironic?"
- xatrak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Good article, lousy title and description.
- DDRRE, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8He just forgot [/sarcasm]... lighten up guys
- RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@caban - maybe you should learn about more "big" sites... try startign with MSN:
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com - Rabbethan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I think it would be ironic if we were all made of iron!
(It's a RvB reference) - shaun1018, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7All that and you can't find the measly Caps Lock key?
- ernieoporto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah, it turns out they had an awesome idea and knew something that people still don't know today. They knew how to code the underlying search service itself, which could stand on its own legs. And that all the eye candy in the world isn't going to save you when you are just doing the same thing as everyone else. Yahoo and MSN have it all wrong and are making things more cluttered and incompatible.
I knew HTML back in 1992 (it was released in 1991), but without being able to do anything with the underlying languages and the available NCSA HTTPd server at the time, I was just doing what everyone else was doing - making worthless link pages that had no content. To some extent we have people doing the same with PHP these days. Cookie cutter sites that just post little badges with copy and paste code are everywhere - little more than a 2.0 version of yesterday's link pages. But in a rare few, it turns out that the service is the story or information they relate.
So learn a little HTML if you don't already. =) - qishi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I have to wonder (and laugh) about how many digg-retards saw this headline and thought, "Wow, I'm smarter than the Google guys."
- jellygraph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Submit buttons are for nerds... ;)
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6You know, just judging from the look of some of their more recently released sites, I would guess they still don't know it.
- Yossarko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Simple is beautiful
- Laurentvw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Actually, it's their first employee who made the mistake. Larry/Sergey asked him to register the domain name but he misunderstood the word they were saying.
- caban, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7I can't think of one really big site that does validate apart from wikipedia.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.myspace.com
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aol.com
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.digg.com - alamko1999, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Sometimes you just dont need to know everything
- renatosousa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5this is weird...
If they didn't knew HTML, how could they parse all the HTML on the webpages to index it?
Even if they didn't knew html, the page is simple and clean, wich is good :D - dyvbond, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I remember reading a lot of these facts in The Google Story,
Interesting book if your interested in...Google.
http://www.thegooglestory.com/ - iOsiris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5they should of just googled it.
- danlucas, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7bariswheel, I think they are digging you down because, judging just from the headline and the few posts in front of yours no one was being condescending towards programmers who don't know HTML but you decided to write a mini-rant about it anyway. Maybe you were responding to something else on the page, but the first impression was one of going off-topic.
Well that and you were insulting to web designers. A good design does more than make the page look pretty, it increases usability and functionality. It kind of odd that you talk about being condescending to programmers by being condescending to designers. - emehrkay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3the only reason digg didnt validate for me one time is because of one of the titles in an article used & instead of &
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Did YOU know HTML back in 199X?
- kofrad, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6i would, standards compliance makes everyone happy
- sirdaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They probably knew how to use 'know'
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