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Diagram of a complicated system titled "All modern digital infrastructure", with an arrow pointing to one tiny piece at the bottom which is clearly load-bearing for the entire endeavor, with the legend "a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003". Source: https://xkcd.com/2347/

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Diagram of a complicated system titled "All modern digital infrastructure", with an arrow pointing to one tiny piece at the bottom which is clearly load-bearing for the entire endeavor, with the legend "a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003". Source: https://xkcd.com/2347/
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Doctor Memory (memory@m.blank.org)'s status on Saturday, 20-Jan-2024 15:47:39 JST Doctor Memory

RIP the man who was the absolute incarnation of XKCD's "one random dude holding up the entire internet". You may never have heard of David Mills, but your entire goddamn world depends on what he did.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Mills

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