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Please, we need your help. Our research suggests you're the last living descendant of the person who knew how to format this config file.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3245/
And as someone who read xkcd as a teenager, I feel the opposite, it feels like it's always been here
Interesting. I'm probably only a few years older than you, and even though I started reading xkcd in college (probably about 2-3 years after it started), it somehow simultaneously seems like a scrappy startup comic just coming into its own, and also a venerable internet institution.
Oh xkcd feels that way to me, but the internet doesn't