1037: Umwelt - Revision history

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‎Robot Paul Revere

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‎Newspaper

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‎Verizon and AT&T

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‎T-Mobile

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‎Military

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‎Corporate Networks

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‎Netscape Navigator

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‎Mozilla Firefox Private Browsing

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‎Buns and Hot dogs

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	==Explanation==		==Explanation==
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	An {{w\|Umwelt}}, as the title text explains, is the idea that a person's entire way of thinking is dependent on their surroundings. Thus, this April Fools' Day comic changes based on the browser, location, or referrer. Thus what the viewer is viewing the comic on, where they live or where they came from determines which comic they actually see. As a result, there are actually multiple comics that went up on April Fools' Day, although only one is seen.		An {{w\|Umwelt}}, as the title text explains, is the idea that a person's entire way of thinking is dependent on their surroundings. Thus, this April Fools' Day comic changes based on the browser, location, or referrer. Thus what the viewer is viewing the comic on, where they live or where they came from determines which comic they actually see. As a result, there are actually multiple comics that went up on April Fools' Day, although only one is seen.

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 [[File:umwelt paul revere.png]]
-Combination of the legend of {{w|Paul Revere#"Midnight Ride"|Paul Revere}} and a computer bit that differentiates between two situations by indicating a zero or a one.
+Combination of the legend of {{w|Paul Revere#"Midnight Ride"|Paul Revere}} and a computer bit that differentiates between two situations by indicating a zero or a one. The joke is that instead of one if by land, two if by sea, following how binary works, it’s zero if by land and one if by sea.
 Location: Boston

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 [[File:umwelt life umass.png]]
-Creating new life has long been a well understood process, in a lab or otherwise.
+Creating new life has long been a well understood process, in a lab or otherwise. The joke here is that they scientists made life in a lab the conventional way, not actually using science.
 This comic is likely a reference to the title text of [[983: Privacy]]

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 [[File:umwelt att.png]]
-Reference to Verizon and AT&T's scandals/controversy regarding implementation of bandwidth caps.
+Reference to Verizon and AT&T's scandals and controversy regarding implementation of bandwidth caps.
 ISP: Verizon and AT&T

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 [[File:umwelt tmobile.png]]
-Reference to T-Mobile's distinguishing feature (at the time it was written) of weaker coverage, in relation to other major providers.
+Reference to T-Mobile's distinguishing feature (at the time it was written) of weaker coverage, in relation to other major providers. Back then, T-Mobile outages were very common.
 ISP: T-Mobile

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 [[File:umwelt military.png]]
-[[Cueball]] assumes that anyone using a military network has an important job like watching for incoming missiles. He includes a thank-you to the user for their military service.
+[[Cueball]] assumes that anyone using a military network has an important job like watching for incoming missile, which is obviously untrue. He says he hopes they have the watching-for-missiles tab open in the background.  He includes a thank-you to the user for their military service.
 ISP: Military networks

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 [[File:umwelt corporate nytimes other.png]]
-These error messages appear if the user is on a network owned by one of the corporations noted. The error message includes a warning against speaking on the company's behalf.
+These error messages appear if the user is on a network owned by one of the corporations noted. The error message includes a warning against speaking on the company's behalf. The joke is that if these people are members of the mentioned corporations, it would seem they can simply approve it, but the footnote tells them not to.
 ISP: Corporate networks of Amazon, Google, Microsoft, NY Times

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 [[File:umwelt netscape man.png]]
-{{w|Netscape Navigator}} was a web browser popular in the 1990s.
+{{w|Netscape Navigator}} was a web browser popular in the 1990s. Randall again says that this is getting harder.
 Browser: Netscape

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 Another reference to crashing web browsers.
-Firefox shows the history when it crashes.
+Firefox shows the history when it crashes. Possibly trying to trick people into thinking their browser has crashed.
 Browser: Firefox (Incognito only?)

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 [[File:umwelt somethingawful.jpg]]
-This is a reference to the question "Why do hot dogs come in packages of 6 while buns come in packages of 8?"
+This is a reference to the question "Why do hot dogs come in packages of 6 while buns come in packages of 8?" , but instead it’s talking about bags of blood and ash.
 Another, more sexual reference to this question can be found in [[1641: Hot Dogs]].