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There's a UK radio show, been going for a looooong time: Desert Island Discs - Wikipedia[^]
And I got to thinking: if a geek was stranded on a desert island, what website would you take with you ("reader only"- you can't contribute or post at all, or it'd always be "search and rescue" or similar)?
WikiHow could be handy?
How about you?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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A bit off-subject, but the Telegraph sites light up my pi-hole domain blocker like a Christmas tree. They seem to want to sell you browsing info to everybody!
Here's one page (out of 30) of the domain lookups resulting from a simple visit to their site and clicking one news link.
More on-subject - the BBC News site would be my choice.
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Look, man - you'd probably never get off that island. Whether there's adequate food or not, you can always rely on something akin to this[^] that will make you glad to be just where you are.
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| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Fantastic time waster. Thanks for that!
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend; inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. -- Groucho Marx
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the way back machine - there's no sites like old sites.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That's what's great about CP: at least one person will come up with the optimal solution to any problem.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The way the weather's been going, I'll have my own personal cloud, big enough to take several copies of the entire Internet.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: big enough to take several copies of the entire Internet
Yes, but...
If you apply Sturgeon's Law[^] to the Internet (hereafter known as Wheeler's Adage), 99.997% of everything on the Internet is crap. You could probably fit the worthwhile bits on a thumb drive or two.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: You could probably fit the worthwhile bits on a thumb drive or two.
Or on the fingers of one hand...
... Suddenly, the logic in Griff's question assails me!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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If it was just me? It probably wouldn't be a very um....kid sister friendly site. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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PirateBay or one of the other torrent sites.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Is the web archive an easy cop-out or a valid answer?
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Does the site update?
(downloading of external stuff makes the difference of a torrent site and netflix)
No - you get a one time download of the site (including images) - know how or wikipedia
Yes - Netflix
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I'm going to go with the obvious, because I'm not clever and overly pragmatic.
google.com
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Except ... you can't ask it any questions, because you can only read pages, not post anything.
Otherwise the only site you'd need would be the local search and rescue! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I wasn't reading "post" as "http post", but as "send some data for update". So in my world, inquiries would still work.
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Old man stranded on a desert island when a beautiful young lady in a wetsuit swims up the beach. He looks at her and she asks if he is hungry? He says yes. She pulls a hamburger out of her sleeve and he eats it down. She asks if he is thirsty, and he says yes. She pull a cold bottle of beer out of her other sleeve. She starts taking off her wetsuit and asks if he wants to play around. He asks her, do you have a set of clubs in there?
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The Cat in the Hat may be fifty years old, but he, and Grinch, Horton, Lorax, Thing1, Thing2, are immortal: Quote: In 1954, a magazine report speculated that one of the reasons for declining children’s literacy was that books like “Dick and Jane” were boring. Geisel took up the challenge and wrote Cat in the Hat using 220 words suitable for beginning readers. It didn’t thrill teachers, but became one of the most popular children’s books in history. He later wrote Green Eggs and Ham when someone challenged him to write a book using 50 words or less.
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«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I will be reading Green Eggs and Ham to a bunch of 3 year olds tomorrow. Dr Seuss WEEK at preschool.
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I remember The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins % Bartholomew and the Oobleck ( didn't check spelling ) from about then, more words used, and a story I liked at the time.
( While Seuss did a great job, I think the idea is often overdone. If you want kids to be stupid, treat them like they are. )
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Since someone pointed me to the RootAdmin site (I'm not making a link of that, for reasons which will become obvious), the CP site has been a wreck!
Pages load with reduced functionality, or without accessing the scripts at all (as an html-only interface, it's somewhat less than optimal).
I've cleared my cache + everything_else twice (which introduces a whole new world of aggravation), with no improvement.
Not a happy puppy.
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It works fine for me!
CP is moving pretty fluidly, which is a surprise for a Sunday morning as I suspect that's "Backup time" and it's generally a little slow.
But I'm logged in to both CP and RA ATM and it's PDQ.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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