Disappearing Sunday Update - Revision history

FaviFake at 08:31, 6 January 2026

2026-01-06T08:31:15Z

Maxcodes: added Category:Sunday comics using HotCat

2025-12-29T20:00:30Z

added Category:Sunday comics using HotCat

82.132.239.140: /* Explanation */ Restore and re-emphasise the historic nature, by grammatical tense. Remove ambiguous commas a different way. Some other tweaks?

2025-12-04T19:18:37Z

‎Explanation: Restore and re-emphasise the historic nature, by grammatical tense. Remove ambiguous commas a different way. Some other tweaks?

R128: hopefully better grammar

2025-12-04T15:48:05Z

hopefully better grammar

Utdtutyabthsc: /* Trivia */

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‎Trivia

Utdtutyabthsc: /* Unusual Means */

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‎Unusual Means

Utdtutyabthsc: /* Unusual Means */

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‎Unusual Means

2A0A:EF40:C2:3201:5827:FC60:F734:C169 at 08:00, 29 August 2025

2025-08-29T08:00:56Z

2A0A:EF40:C2:3201:5827:FC60:F734:C169 at 08:00, 29 August 2025

2025-08-29T08:00:30Z

FaviFake: /* Explanation */

2025-06-21T11:07:09Z

‎Explanation

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 {{incomplete|Use coherent sentences in the [[#Trivia]] section and clean up the [[#Explanation]], there are a lot of grammatically-questionable sentences. Also, the explanation of [[#Unusual Means]] is incomplete and lacks necessary details.}}The comic is a special Disappearing comic that was placed between the Friday comic [[2184: Unpopular Opinions]] but before the normal Monday comic update, which became [[2185: Cumulonimbus]]. As the title suggests, it was [[:Category:Sunday comics|released on a Sunday]], becoming only the fifth comic to be released on a Sunday. It was also the first comic that was fully deleted from the xkcd archives, as it was replaced by the normal Monday update. It left no trails on the official site, but other sites, like [[explain xkcd|this wiki]] and in the [http://web.archive.org/web/20190804230254/https://www.xkcd.com/#/ Internet Archive], saved a copy of the image. Also, the [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/disappearing_sunday_update.png image] and its [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/disappearing_sunday_update_2x.png 2x version] were still on the xkcd image server after it had disappeared.
-The entire comic is an advertisement for [[Randall]]'s then-upcoming book ''[[How To]]''. In fact, clicking on the comic brings the user to https://xkcd.com/how-to/. The first part of the comic, the advertisement, includes a drawing of the cover, two sets of pages showing the open book, and a sampling of the table of contents of the book. The full table of contents can be found in the Blag post mentioned above.
+The entire comic was an advertisement for [[Randall]]'s then-upcoming book ''[[How To]]''. In fact, clicking on the comic brought the user to https://xkcd.com/how-to/. The first part of the comic, the advertisement, included a drawing of the cover, two sets of pages (showing the open book) and a sampling of the table of contents of the book. The full table of contents can still be found in the Blag post mentioned above.
-The second part of the comic, the joke, shows Randall (as [[Cueball]]) at the bottom, where he in advance apologizes for the various bots cataloguing xkcd comics which might break because of this special one. See more under [[#Unusual Means|Unusual Means]]. This ''Explain xkcd'' website is one example of such a page, where the bot that creates new pages assigned the comic the number 2185 despite the comic not having a designated number at the time of its release. Two weeks later, he released a permanent comic with a reference to one of the chapters in his book, [[2190: Serena Versus the Drones]].
+The second part of the comic, the joke, showed Randall (as [[Cueball]]) at the bottom, where he apologized in advance regarding the various bots cataloguing xkcd comics, which might break because of this special one. See more under [[#Unusual Means|Unusual Means]]. This ''Explain xkcd'' website is one example of such a page, where the bot that creates new pages assigned the comic the number 2185 despite the comic not having a designated number at the time of its release. Two weeks later, he released a permanent comic with a reference to one of the chapters in his book, [[2190: Serena Versus the Drones]].
 ===Unusual Means===

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 {{incomplete|Use coherent sentences in the [[#Trivia]] section and clean up the [[#Explanation]], there are a lot of grammatically-questionable sentences. Also, the explanation of [[#Unusual Means]] is incomplete and lacks necessary details.}}The comic is a special Disappearing comic that was placed between the Friday comic [[2184: Unpopular Opinions]] but before the normal Monday comic update, which became [[2185: Cumulonimbus]]. As the title suggests, it was [[:Category:Sunday comics|released on a Sunday]], becoming only the fifth comic to be released on a Sunday. It was also the first comic that was fully deleted from the xkcd archives, as it was replaced by the normal Monday update. It left no trails on the official site, but other sites, like [[explain xkcd|this wiki]] and in the [http://web.archive.org/web/20190804230254/https://www.xkcd.com/#/ Internet Archive], saved a copy of the image. Also, the [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/disappearing_sunday_update.png image] and its [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/disappearing_sunday_update_2x.png 2x version] were still on the xkcd image server after it had disappeared.
-The entire comic is an advertisement for [[Randall]]'s then-upcoming book ''[[How To]]''. In fact, clicking on the comic brings the user to https://xkcd.com/how-to/. The first part of the comic, the advertisement, included a drawing of the cover, two sets of pages, showing the open book, and a sampling of the table of contents of the book. The full table of contest can be found in the Blag post mentioned above.
+The entire comic is an advertisement for [[Randall]]'s then-upcoming book ''[[How To]]''. In fact, clicking on the comic brings the user to https://xkcd.com/how-to/. The first part of the comic, the advertisement, includes a drawing of the cover, two sets of pages showing the open book, and a sampling of the table of contents of the book. The full table of contents can be found in the Blag post mentioned above.
-The second part of the comic, the joke, shows Randall (as [[Cueball]]) at the bottom, where he in advance apologized for the various bots, that automatically catalog xkcd comics, which might break because of this special comic. See more under [[#Unusual Means|Unusual Means]]. This ''Explain xkcd'' website is one example of such a page, where the bot that creates new pages, was assigning the comic a number of 2185 despite the comic not having a designated number at the time it was released. Two weeks later, he released a permanent comic with a reference to one of the chapters in his book, on [[2190: Serena Versus the Drones]].
+The second part of the comic, the joke, shows Randall (as [[Cueball]]) at the bottom, where he in advance apologizes for the various bots cataloguing xkcd comics which might break because of this special one. See more under [[#Unusual Means|Unusual Means]]. This ''Explain xkcd'' website is one example of such a page, where the bot that creates new pages assigned the comic the number 2185 despite the comic not having a designated number at the time of its release. Two weeks later, he released a permanent comic with a reference to one of the chapters in his book, [[2190: Serena Versus the Drones]].
 ===Unusual Means===

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 ==Trivia==
 *Clicking on the comic brings the user to https://xkcd.com/how-to/. Notably, his [[Blag]], the other link mentioned in the comic, was not linked from the comic. The link to this is https://blog.xkcd.com/. When this comic was released the top blog post was the one about the ''How To'' book.
-*The comic even broke the xkcd site itself as the previously released Friday comic, [[2184: Unpopular Opinions]], then had a next button that linked to comic 2185, which did not exist at time of release! So using that button from comic 2184 displayed a [[404]] error. Later this was fixed by giving this comic the number 2185, although only temporarily, see the [[#Trivia|Trivia]] section. However, giving it a temporary number also put it into the archives, so the title text, ''This comic won't exist in the archives. NOTHING IS REAL.'' was false for a time until this comic was removed from the archive and from the site on Monday. One of the bot methods mentioned may be in reference to the then-recent comic [[2180: Spreadsheets]], where [[Cueball]] debates making a real program to do a task, or to use a Google spreadsheet instead.
+*The comic even broke the xkcd site itself as the previously released Friday comic, [[2184: Unpopular Opinions]], had a next button that linked to comic 2185, which did not exist at time of release, so using that button from comic 2184 displayed a [[404]] error. Later this was fixed by giving this comic the number 2185, although only temporarily. However, giving it a temporary number also put it into the archives, so the title text, ''This comic won't exist in the archives. NOTHING IS REAL.'' was false for a time until this comic was removed from the archive and from the site on Monday. One of the bot methods mentioned may be in reference to the then-recent comic [[2180: Spreadsheets]], where [[Cueball]] debates making a real program to do a task, or to use a Google spreadsheet instead.
-*This August 4th 2019 [[:Category:Sunday comics|Sunday comic]] was first posted on the front page without any number relating to it. Thus breaking the next comic button on xkcd.
+*This August 4th 2019 [[:Category:Sunday comics|Sunday comic]] was first posted on the front page without any number relating to it, breaking the next comic button on xkcd.
-**Since it was scheduled to be deleted on Monday August 5th 2019, when the next comic arrives on xkcd, it was not supposed to have a number or be in the archive. But seems like this caused too many problems for the xkcd site it self (not just for all the other sites Randall jokes about).
+**Since it was scheduled to be deleted on Monday August 5th 2019, when the next comic arrives on xkcd, it was not supposed to have a number or be in the archive, but it seems like this caused too many problems for the xkcd site itself (not just for all the other sites Randall jokes about).
 **So later it was given the next number in the comic list (2185) and was also included in the archive for the duration of its stay on the xkcd front page.
 **It was later removed from the archive and 2185 was assigned to the Monday comic [[2185: Cumulonimbus]].

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 : [https://secondlife.com/ Second Life] is a virtual world that opened in 2002 and has [http://www.gridsurvey.com/charts/historicalconcurrency.png averaged about 40,000 simultaneous users for the past five years].
 ; RFC 2549
-: An RFC is a proposal for how to run the Internet. [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549 RFC 2549] is about transmitting data using carrier pigeons (this was one of the earliest [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day April Fools' Day] RFCs).
+: An RFC is a proposal for how to run the Internet. [https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549 RFC 2549] is about transmitting data using carrier pigeons (This was one of the earliest [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day April Fools' Day] RFCs).
 ; Massive Google docs sheets
 : See #[[2180]].
-Another unusual method is [[unixkcd]].
+Another example of an unusual method is [[unixkcd]].
 ==Transcript==

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 ===Unusual Means===
-Randall notes that ''if you read xkcd through unusual means... ... I hope this ephemeral ghost comic doesn't break them too badly''.
+Randall notes that ''if you read xkcd through unusual means... ...I hope this ephemeral ghost comic doesn't break them too badly''.
 Between the dots he suggested different methods of reading xkcd, other than on the {{xkcd}} home page. These methods get progressively sillier (many still need explanations). Here is a list:

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 | title     = Disappearing Sunday Update
 | image     = disappearing_sunday_update.png
-| titletext = This comic won't exist in the archives. NOTHING IS REAL. <!- Nope, it did. -!>
+| titletext = This comic won't exist in the archives. NOTHING IS REAL.
 | ldomain   = web.archive.org/web/20190804230254/https://www
 | lappend   =

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 ==Explanation==
-{{incomplete|Use coherent sentences in the [[#Trivia]] section and clean up the [[#Explanation]], there are a lot of grammatically-questionable sentences. Also, [[#Unusual Means]] is incomplete and lacks necessary details.}}The comic is a special Disappearing comic that was placed between the Friday comic [[2184: Unpopular Opinions]] but before the normal Monday comic update, which became [[2185: Cumulonimbus]]. As the title suggests, it was [[:Category:Sunday comics|released on a Sunday]], becoming only the fifth comic to be released on a Sunday. It was also the first comic that was fully deleted from the xkcd archives, as it was replaced by the normal Monday update. It left no trails on the official site, but other sites, like [[explain xkcd|this wiki]] and in the [http://web.archive.org/web/20190804230254/https://www.xkcd.com/#/ Internet Archive], saved a copy of the image. Also, the [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/disappearing_sunday_update.png image] and its [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/disappearing_sunday_update_2x.png 2x version] were still on the xkcd image server after it had disappeared.
+{{incomplete|Use coherent sentences in the [[#Trivia]] section and clean up the [[#Explanation]], there are a lot of grammatically-questionable sentences. Also, the explanation of [[#Unusual Means]] is incomplete and lacks necessary details.}}The comic is a special Disappearing comic that was placed between the Friday comic [[2184: Unpopular Opinions]] but before the normal Monday comic update, which became [[2185: Cumulonimbus]]. As the title suggests, it was [[:Category:Sunday comics|released on a Sunday]], becoming only the fifth comic to be released on a Sunday. It was also the first comic that was fully deleted from the xkcd archives, as it was replaced by the normal Monday update. It left no trails on the official site, but other sites, like [[explain xkcd|this wiki]] and in the [http://web.archive.org/web/20190804230254/https://www.xkcd.com/#/ Internet Archive], saved a copy of the image. Also, the [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/disappearing_sunday_update.png image] and its [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/disappearing_sunday_update_2x.png 2x version] were still on the xkcd image server after it had disappeared.
 The entire comic is an advertisement for [[Randall]]'s then-upcoming book ''[[How To]]''. In fact, clicking on the comic brings the user to https://xkcd.com/how-to/. The first part of the comic, the advertisement, included a drawing of the cover, two sets of pages, showing the open book, and a sampling of the table of contents of the book. The full table of contest can be found in the Blag post mentioned above.