today i plowed through my email with a vengance. i don't even think i read 1% of it.
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today shaver explained to me that the internet is slow these days, despite increased bandwidth and faster computers etc., because we have gotten rid of the convinient tags such as <blink> and replaced them with bloated behemoths like <span style="text-decoration: blink">. i would have liked to tell my children that society advanced during my lifetime, however it's not looking like that's going to be the case [ i would put a clever link in each word in that clause, pointing to an example of things going downhill except that just one link should suffice ].