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   Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 10:46:30 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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   My eight-year-old daughter figuring out HTML after I showed her a single example: 🐁 Dad I can't believe I'm doing it, I'm making a website!
   Me: 🦝 hold on honey I gotta do the internet rant about monitor aspect ratios again

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 10:46:31 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     🦝 *wild unhinged gibbering rant*
     🐴 haha dan you're so funny
     🦝 I am DEADLY serious
     🦊 haha, you're
     🦊 wait
     🐴 what other stuff was he serious about that we thought he was joking about
     🦊 *glances nervously at the mousetrap thread*

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 10:46:32 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     guys I'm serious, if computer monitors had stayed portrait instead of going landscape in the 70's then they'd be the same orientation as phones and we wouldn't have to make two wildly different websites every time we make a website, we could just make the links bigger

     (unless in the parallel universe where computer monitors never turned landscape folk scroll through the internet with their phones turned sideways)

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Feb-2025 10:46:33 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

     Kid's making her first website <3

     Already we've had the talk about how your sketchbook (for sketching out how the site should look) is tall and skinny, and so is a phone, but her laptop's screen is short and wide, and man oh man it would be SO much easier to make websites in the year 2025 if computer monitors had stayed portrait