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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | When {{w|Wikipedia}} is down, everyone is considerably dumber as they lose their main source of information. This comic takes that to the extreme. The only Wikipedia outages that have occurred in the news are from March 2010 and the [[1005|SOPA protest outage]] of January 18, 2012. | |
− | The | + | The Extended Mind is a theory proposed by philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers, which postulates that the mind isn't only in the skull, but also incorporates external things, like for example Wikipedia. |
− | The | + | The text at the bottom of the comic "...my apparent IQ drops by 30 points." is just an other joke here. It's just saying that people like this are not able to use other resources than Wikipedia. They can't understand this old fashioned {{w|book|books}} and many more other ways to enhance their own skills. |
− | + | The title text refers to an {{w|Wikipedia:Getting to Philosophy|uncannily accurate observation}} of Wikipedia's page links, which likely arises from the fact that the first few links in any article tend to categorize the article into more abstract ideas that tend eventually towards philosophy. | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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==Trivia== | ==Trivia== | ||
− | *The error code shown in the right panel | + | *The error code shown in the right panel caused a [http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/wikitech/236027 bit of a discussion] from the wiki techs. Randall replied with: |
− | ::Randall: "I drew it based on an older error message where the IP was 10.0.0.243. I changed it to 242 (a) because I try not to get too specific with those things, and didn't want people poking the actual machine at .243 (if it was still there) - I actually considered putting .276 and seeing how many people noticed, but figured they'd just think I made a dumb mistake. and (b) as part of this ancient inside joke involving the number 242 ..." | + | ::Randall: "I drew it based on an older error message where the IP was 10.0.0.243. I changed it to 242 (a) because I try not to get too specific with those things, and didn't want people poking the actual machine at .243 (if it was still there) -- I actually considered putting .276 and seeing how many people noticed, but figured they'd just think I made a dumb mistake. and (b) as part of this ancient inside joke involving the number 242 ..." |
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[[Category:Internet]] | [[Category:Internet]] | ||
[[Category:Wikipedia]] | [[Category:Wikipedia]] |