Footnote - Revision history

104.28.215.219 at 23:18, 1 April 2026

2026-04-01T23:18:43Z

Explainyourself: Some stuff added in the caps lock section.

2025-10-29T14:33:24Z

Some stuff added in the caps lock section.

FaviFake: /* Original footnote */

2025-06-21T23:55:11Z

‎Original footnote

FaviFake at 16:38, 5 May 2025

2025-05-05T16:38:47Z

FaviFake: /* References */

2025-04-27T09:33:41Z

‎References

FaviFake: Hate to break it to you, but that was a joke Citation needed. See the editor FAQ for more info. Thx anyways!

2025-03-21T16:24:34Z

Hate to break it to you, but that was a joke Citation needed. See the editor FAQ for more info. Thx anyways!

172.70.127.134: Found original source for Atwood's law on Coding Horror blog.

2025-03-20T20:55:43Z

Found original source for Atwood's law on Coding Horror blog.

172.70.127.97: Fixed stupid typo on imgur

2025-03-20T20:53:51Z

Fixed stupid typo on imgur

108.162.216.29 at 20:40, 20 March 2025

2025-03-20T20:40:24Z

172.70.127.53 at 20:37, 20 March 2025

2025-03-20T20:37:47Z

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 !and remove your device from Airplane Mode and set it to Boat Mode.
-|Many portable devices, especially cell phones and tablets, have an "Airplane Mode," which disables all radio-frequency transmissions (wifi, mobile/cellphone connectivity, etc) to avoid potential interference with an aircraft's own electronics while flying. And also to prevent your phone trying to connect to cell towers at high power because they are being constantly disconnected, the result of this is all the people's phone sending high power signals and jamming other phones. "Boat Mode" is fictional.
+|Many portable devices, especially cell phones and tablets, have an "Airplane Mode," which disables all radio-frequency transmissions (wifi, mobile/cellphone connectivity, etc) to avoid potential interference with an aircraft's own electronics while flying. And also to prevent your phone trying to connect to cell towers at high power because they are being constantly disconnected, the result of this is all the people's phone sending high power signals and jamming other phones. "Boat Mode" is fictional, although it was brought to life for the [[3227: Creation|2026 April Fool's comic]].
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 !For security reasons, please leave caps lock on while browsing.

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 !For security reasons, please leave caps lock on while browsing.
-|Having caps lock on would not improve security. It may reduce your security if it prevents you from using lower-case letters in passwords.
+|Having caps lock on would not improve security. It may reduce your security if it prevents you from using lower-case letters in passwords. It may also be just to annoy the user later, after browsing the webcomic, so that they would be mildly annoyed by discovering they had caps lock on.
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 ===Original footnote===
 The original footnote was added between [https://web.archive.org/web/20070406183323/http://xkcd.com/ April 6th, 2007] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20070503171452/http://xkcd.com/ May 3rd, 2007]. According to this [https://blog.xkcd.com/2007/04/19/billboards Blag post], it was as reference to [https://web.archive.org/web/20070601192105/http://valleywag.com/tech/mystery-billboards/asks-advertising-campaign-249274.php random billboards] appearing in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. They were a viral marketing campaign by the Ask Jeeves search engine to drive publicity around their new search algorithm. Randall thought the sort of people who would be curious enough to go to Google and type them in are probably the sort of people who would like xkcd, so he added the footnote to his website to attract more fans.
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−	<noinclude>{{xkcd.com}}[[File:xkcd_bottom.png\|thumb\|right\|250px\|The [[Design of xkcd.com#Bottom section\|Bottom section]] is one of the [[Design of xkcd.com\|four main sections]] of the [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] website.]]{{TOC}}:''This article is about the text at the bottom of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. For comics featuring footnotes, see [[:Category:Footnotes]].''	+	<noinclude>{{xkcd.com}}[[File:xkcd_bottom.png\|thumb\|right\|250px\|The [[Design of xkcd.com#Bottom section\|Bottom section]] is one of the [[Design of xkcd.com\|four main sections]] of the [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] website.]]{{TOC}}
		+	:''This article is about the text at the bottom of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. For comics featuring footnotes, see [[:Category:Footnotes]].''

	The '''footnote''' on [[xkcd]] is displayed beneath [[Randall]]'s list of "[[Design of xkcd.com#Comics I enjoy\|Comics I enjoy]]". It's intentionally set to a very tiny font size, which makes it hard to read without zooming in. It states:		The '''footnote''' on [[xkcd]] is displayed beneath [[Randall]]'s list of "[[Design of xkcd.com#Comics I enjoy\|Comics I enjoy]]". It's intentionally set to a very tiny font size, which makes it hard to read without zooming in. It states:

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−	~~===References===~~
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 :from Airplane Mode and set it to Boat Mode. For security reasons, please leave caps lock on while browsing.</div>
-The text gives questionable advice on how to view [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. Using a discontinued browser on an Apple computer released in 1986 with a screen resolution one pixel tall would be impossible. <ref>https://imgur.com/a/tSdpW2U The given image shows the error given by Netscape Navigator when opening xkcd.com. With a modified version of the browser, the instructions given could be plausible, due to [https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power Atwood's law]</ref>
+The text gives questionable advice on how to view [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. Using a discontinued browser on an Apple computer released in 1986 with a screen resolution one pixel tall would be impossible.{{Citation needed}}
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 !xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below
-|It is normal to specify browser and minimum version, as all later versions typically retain needed features from previous versions. Instead, the footnote claims that older versions are better (perhaps due to [[1172: Workflow|reliance on a bug]] fixed after version 4.0). No version of Netscape Navigator is maintained.
+|It is normal to specify browser and minimum version, as all later versions typically retain needed features from previous versions. Instead, the footnote claims that older versions are better (perhaps due to [[1172: Workflow|reliance on a bug]] fixed after version 4.0). No version of Netscape Navigator is maintained and the site [https://i.imgur.com/CKnd2sV.png can't be opened] because of a missing security protocol. However, with a modified version of the browser, the instructions given could be plausible, due to [https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power Atwood's law].
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 !on a Pentium 3±1