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Parsing HTML with regex (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 7 months ago by pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] Exec@pawb.social 60 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Actually the original is from StackOverflow

[โ€“] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think it's older than that. Well, parts of it are.

Though I adore the addition of the fade to chaos in the 2009 Stack Overflow post, I recall seeing the exact early text from that answer linked and re-pasted on older CS forums as early as 2000. It needed posted a lot, shortly after XHTML became popular.

Part of the contextual humor of the 2009 SO answer, is it takes the trend of the previous answers - getting longer and less coherent each time it needed posted - and extended it to it's logical conclusion.

I do think the Stack Overflow post is the definitive version.

I wish I could find the original, or something closer, because we could compare and measure our collective loss of sanity.