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How one techie ended up paying the tab on an Apple Macintosh Plus

Dave K

Ahh, the fun of documents from people new to word processing who feel it is a great idea to fill the document with Comic Sans and WordArt (shudder) to "show off their skills".

It reminds me of the early days of the internet with people creating homepages in FrontPage Express that featured gawdy, blinking/scrolling text, hideous tiled backgrounds and "under construction" gifs everywhere.

Back then I also remembered coming across a website that scrolled really slowly and unresponsively. After checking the page source, it transpired that instead of setting a solid colour background, they'd created a 1x1 pixel JPG which they had then tiled to create the solid colour background.

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