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(I read more of that html source ...)
(really, it shoulda been obvious)
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:: <td><input class="button" value="Log in" tabindex="104" title="Enter your username and password in the boxes provided to login, spin round three times, vomit, click your heels together and TA-DA!" accesskey="s" type="submit"></td>
 
:: <td><input class="button" value="Log in" tabindex="104" title="Enter your username and password in the boxes provided to login, spin round three times, vomit, click your heels together and TA-DA!" accesskey="s" type="submit"></td>
 
:: Will this actually enter properly, or will those formatted tags not be input scrubbed? Tables ...  [[User:Keybounce|Keybounce]] ([[User talk:Keybounce|talk]]) 08:34, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
 
:: Will this actually enter properly, or will those formatted tags not be input scrubbed? Tables ...  [[User:Keybounce|Keybounce]] ([[User talk:Keybounce|talk]]) 08:34, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
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:::Also, someone in 2003 couldn't have asked about a webcomic that was only launched in 2005. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.52.109|173.245.52.109]] 18:29, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
  
 
The link above seems to be dead now. DNS failed. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.167.15|162.158.167.15]] 09:03, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
 
The link above seems to be dead now. DNS failed. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.167.15|162.158.167.15]] 09:03, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

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"There was uh, a thing called a segfault that made my computer like, all blurry and stuff." Davidy22[talk] 06:58, 2 February 2013 (UTC)

That was one reason why StackOverflow came to life: main authors fed up with (mis)using forums for query & answer site --JakubNarebski (talk) 23:03, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Just two googling steps brought me here: http://www.mirrorsoferis.com/forum/thread05232003a.html Relevant for "Trivia"? Even the year fits! 108.162.230.89 11:28, 12 September 2014 (UTC)

From the HTML source:
<!-- Well, you got me. -->
<!-- This is a spoof; a reaction to xkcd.com/979/ -->
<!-- Okay? -->
<!-- Apologies. -->
Cute theory, though. -108.162.254.126 12:23, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Even better, looking at other stuff in that source:
<td><input class="button" value="Log in" tabindex="104" title="Enter your username and password in the boxes provided to login, spin round three times, vomit, click your heels together and TA-DA!" accesskey="s" type="submit"></td>
Will this actually enter properly, or will those formatted tags not be input scrubbed? Tables ... Keybounce (talk) 08:34, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
Also, someone in 2003 couldn't have asked about a webcomic that was only launched in 2005. 173.245.52.109 18:29, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

The link above seems to be dead now. DNS failed. 162.158.167.15 09:03, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Working now --Keybounce (talk) 08:34, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

2nd paragraph of the explanation is nonsense! A forum post is nothing like a FAQ entry. The problem didn't get solved and was probably put away and forgotten. Happens all the time. 162.158.83.144 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

"The title text is a suggestion to forums to be aware of the fact that people are likely going to come across such posts in the future" My pet peeve is when I Google an error and get led to a post like in the comic, and one of the last comments is a person necro-bumping with new information on the same issue, but then a moderator locks the post because its X years old and needs to be left alone. This is the fucking Internet; data doesn't rot. 108.162.212.83 13:52, 15 July 2017 (UTC)