...east in the beginning, only a few top-level domains were accepted.) If the user entered an acceptable domain (by xkcd's rules, which apparently changed dur
In some cases, Megan's reply seems to correspond to the company.
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...in fact, sites that use this branding in their advertisements and/or their user interface which is likely what inspired [[Randall]] to write this comic. Cu
...t was limiting posts to 140 characters, it was still popular enough to get some attention and make someone think about going to the site. Sending messages
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| titletext = ALERT: Some pending mandatory software updates require version 21.1.2 of the Oracle/Sun
...atically by default, but the operating system might install them only if a user allows it to. The frequency of software changes (and changes in the way Ado
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...ing {{w|File Explorer|Windows Explorer}}, a dialog box opens to inform the user how long it would take. However, to the bafflement of many the time often k
:The author of the Windows file copy dialog visits some friends.
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...ame suggests, these systems are meant to be used by multiple people or {{w|User (computing)|users}}, sometimes at the same time. To prevent malicious or ac
...operating systems' administrator accounts. It makes the argument that the user's data is more valuable than the integrity of the system. This is arguably
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...ees Celsius, you'd be quite comfortable outside dressed for the beach) but some of the benchmarks are humorous and/or completely useless as can be seen bel
Some people argue for switching to metric units in the US, and these people beca
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...’t see each other’s faces or properly identify that they’re human in some way.
In the first two panels, [[Cueball]] is exchanging some possibly profane insults with the other [[Cueball]]. [[Megan]] takes hold o
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...rification system to stop automatic submissions to web forms by asking the user to do something a computer program could not do, such as type a distorted w
Another reason why a CAPTCHA like this won't be very practical is that some humans haven't necessarily seen the movie in the question and would be unab
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...ill allow users to find all songs that contain a particular tag; so when a user searches for "Country breakup music," they will receive a list of {{w|Count
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...less lover, lacking that experience, might fumble with the clasp for quite some time. In the heat of the moment, a lover may feel frustrated if they feel t
...impediment. A normal bra clasp can be tricky enough for the inexperienced user, but the addition of the Rubik's Cube element is going too far. Not to ment
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...uggests that if you have synesthesia as well as {{w|colorblindness}}, then some of the colors might appear identical and so one number would not be visible
...no one set of color-number associations seen by all synesthetes. So while some synesthete might see '2' as green and '0' as red (so a red-green color-blin
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This is Randall's first map of online communities, with a successor (showing some zoomed-in highlights of the map) at [[802: Online Communities 2]]. As Randa
...ut with small letters making it spell "Noob," slang for a "Newbie" or "New user" — a person less experienced with the internet, as many of the sites to t
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{{w|Slashdot}} is a venerable techie site. On many sites, the user base can vote comments "up" or "down," but at Slashdot, only moderators (th
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...ho took their internet access seriously would have preferred that at least some of the phone wiring and phone jacks in their residences were {{w|Ethernet}}
The title text, which is a reference to foonetic user relsqui, was changed to correct their name to "Finn" after they came out as
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...ng these dots outwards towards the edge of the screen before disappearing. Some of the "stars" appear to pass closer to the viewing point than others, resu
...rtainment System}} game {{w|Duck Hunt}}, originally published in 1984. The user would point the Zapper at the connected television screen while playing Duc
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...uld prove to be very influential in the development of personal computing. Some of the technologies demonstrated found success in the following decades, wh
...nown today as "cut, copy and paste". On some early text-based systems, the user moved the cursor to the beginning of the text to be copied, typed <CTRL>+K+
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:How to freak out a mobile app user.
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...quito. Although rather innocuous, these ringtones can get very annoying to some people, which is what this comic is getting at.
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...w deal with this number. Common ways to do this are to simply disallow the user from entering invalid numbers, or to return an error condition if the enter
...the level can be reproduced by using a particular invalid value, it is in some sense true to say that the level "exists" within the game, even though it w
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...hey can be downloaded. This comic depicts a {{w|dialog box}} requiring the user to confirm if they want to download a potentially dangerous file — an
..."<tt>~tilde/pub/cia-bin/etc</tt>". The first part is a public folder of a user named "tilde" (which is also the name for the {{w|tilde|~ symbol}}), "<tt>c
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