3256: Nostalgia Content
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| Nostalgia Content |
 Title text: Gen-Z got a chunk of the Carboniferous, and now all their memes are about how pathetic and small today's dragonflies are. |
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This comic is a joke about nostalgia content.
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- [Cueball is standing, with his arms out, in front of a prototaxite (incorrectly refered to in this comic as a "parataxtite') towering over a mossy landscape. To his right, a Tamagotchi, and milk-caps (refered to in this comic as "pogs"), appear.]
- Cueball: Who else rembembers pogs? Tamagotchis? Vast forests of Parataxites towering over the mossy landscape as armored fish stir in the deep?
- [Caption below the panel:]
- Due to a database error, Millenial nostalgia now includes a portion of the early Devonian.
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I'm not a paleobotanist by any stretch of the imagination, but the comic contains an error. It should be `prototaxites` instead of `parataxites`. Blagae (talk) 12:57, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
Explainxkcd was down when this comic came out, which I would assume is why the explanation is blank, but I'm just glad the page is back up. K9Dragon23, or RainWingSquares (talk) (talk) 13:56, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
- So it wasn't just me! When I saw it was down I just thought it was just a problem with my computer!GSLikesCats307 (talk) 14:35, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
- It was a "global problem", effectively, from the message I was getting. I'd decided it was one of three things:
- Some (new?) editor had tried something fancy that accidentally broke the whole site (hoped not, and it's fairly rugged against the obvious accidental errors)
- Someone had deliberately broken it, as above (again, hoped not...)
- Some extrernal system had started trying to scrape the site for data, with absolutely no thought for throttling this down to non-disruptive levels.
- Given no signs of error-prone edits, now it's back, the last of these is now the most obvious. The cloudflare gateway obviously didn't prevent it, originally, but may yet have added this particular inconsiderate attempt by now (maybe why it's working right now... leaving it up to the instigator to decide whether or not to reconfigure to hammer here again... unless they already realised they were hammering it, and had turned off/tuned down to correct that error).
- Though there's at least two further possible reasons, that I'll not bother mentioning. 82.132.239.2 15:42, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
- If someone deliberately broke it, then it could’ve been to create a real database error, in accordance with the comic. Logalex8369 (talk) 16:06, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
- It was a "global problem", effectively, from the message I was getting. I'd decided it was one of three things:
- I saw this page without any transcript and I thought "Hey, I could do that." So I did. I hope someone else edits the explanation for me, for I have very little knowledge on paleobotany. Clarkexckd8 (talk) 14:39, 9 June 2026 (UTC)
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