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Nobel Prize to Be Awarded to Forum User From 9 Years Ago With Same Niche Problem (hard-drive.net)

submitted 6 months ago by Nero@sopuli.xyz to c/theonion@midwest.social

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[–] OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

https://m.xkcd.com/979/

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 26 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The even worse feeling is when there is a reply below with "" and a reply below that with "thank you so much, that fixed it!"

[–] anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 months ago

in this case sometimes web.archive.org has archived the original answer

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago

Huh, I never knew there was a mobile version of the site.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

I have actually gone back and posted some comments starting with "Dear people from the future..." on some issues after I figured it out because of this comic. I wonder if anyone has ever seen those and got the joke.