Kinja Time Machine

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 04/20/2016 at 15:42 • Filed to: None

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I saw this !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! on the side bar and thought, “Oh, that looks interesting. I wonder who wrote it.” It turns out I did. Two years ago. I had completely forgotten about it.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ttyymmnn 04/20/2016 at 15:46

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Funny, I saw the article and thought “Ah, Kinja is doing one of its random article barfs again - that looks like a ttyymmnn post” - despite the fact I didn’t remember commenting on it, either.

Daily Drives a Dragon - One Last Lap > ttyymmnn 04/20/2016 at 15:47

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Oh Kinja. Sometimes you’re good. The rest of the time, you suck.

TheHondaBro > ttyymmnn 04/20/2016 at 15:59

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Lately I’ve noticed most of the articles on the sidebar are all old.

StingrayJake > ttyymmnn 04/20/2016 at 16:22

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None of my articles ever get so popular... but I am weirded out when Kinja suggests something from 2012.

ttyymmnn > StingrayJake 04/20/2016 at 16:26

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I think what happens is that somebody out there in the Internet discovers something, then shares it out, then it gets shared again, etc. Since the clicks all get counted by Kinja, they start to appear as popular posts, no matter how old they are. The P-38 article is up to 3k views, which is certainly far more than it initially received. Unless it had been shared to the FP, but I don’t think so. Honestly, I really don’t remember at all.

StingrayJake > ttyymmnn 04/20/2016 at 16:50

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It’s always fun when you get hits on a two-year-old comment, let alone an entire post.

ttyymmnn > StingrayJake 04/20/2016 at 16:51

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It’s fun and strange, because I usually don’t remember what I said. In the case of this post, I can see how my writing style has changed over the last two years. Hopefully, it’s gotten better!

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ttyymmnn 04/20/2016 at 18:26

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I vaguely remember reading that back then.

ttyymmnn > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 04/20/2016 at 18:32

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Good, because I don’t remember writing it! (Well, I do, but I had forgotten about it.) I actually touched it up a bit, since my writing style has changed a lot in the last two years.

McMike > ttyymmnn 04/20/2016 at 22:11

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Same thing happened to me about an hour ago.

http://lanesplitter.jalopnik.com/bruh-http-oppo…

I saw the post, and thought I had seen it. I remember knowing details about it. I remember making a comment or typing details about the location/riders.

Then I realized I posted it here, and now it’s on the sidebar..

ttyymmnn > McMike 04/20/2016 at 22:18

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I think Kinja is having another nervous breakdown.

McMike > ttyymmnn 04/21/2016 at 05:34

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While having a nervous breakdown, I just did a GIS for that motorcycle rider to see if there were any photos of his motorcycle, or any details from that day, and these were the results.

Nice work Kinja. These are all lede images from my last 4 posts.

ttyymmnn > McMike 04/21/2016 at 08:34

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Numerous times, I have gone looking for a picture of an airplane for my history posts, only to find links to ones I’ve already used high up in the GIS results. Good work indeed.

McMike > ttyymmnn 04/21/2016 at 09:08

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Holy shit Kinja, what are you up to?

I just posted this 30 minutes ago, and it’s now the 6th result in a Google search. I even used a browser I never visit Kinja with.

ttyymmnn > McMike 04/21/2016 at 09:29

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Could there be some other thing at work here? Even if you used a different browser, is it going through the same network? Does Google recognize you somehow?

McMike > ttyymmnn 04/21/2016 at 09:32

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What do you get for that N300HR?

ttyymmnn > McMike 04/21/2016 at 09:39

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I first searched in Safari, since that’s what was open. But the link showed up as having been clicked already. So I tried Chrome, which I very rarely ever use. My mileage did not vary. Hell, it could be the same screen shot, except that I got my results in .17 seconds, while it took you .33 seconds. Are you using dial up?

McMike > ttyymmnn 04/21/2016 at 09:48

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(Checks speed of network) It’s pretty good this morning.

ttyymmnn > McMike 04/21/2016 at 10:13

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:/