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Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Time Capsule
FOLLOWUP. We discovered by accident that thanks to the Wayback Machine, a lot of Shuteye Nation is still available through the infamous Who'sWho Y2000. Only the graphics files are spotty. But it was always mostly about the writing anyway. So return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear when "Bil Clitton" was still Presdent and Al Bore and George Hubert Walker Chevy Snaffle Adidas Bush XIV were still campaigning to replace him. A lot of the links still work, including the ones (indicated by a degree sign; you know, a tiny superscript circle) to the infamous Glossary, the utterly awful Foreign Gazetteer, and others.
We urge you to take a look -- well, really to plunge in whole hog and wallow around, for hours -- because it's the best evidence available that our perceptions and predictions tend to be right, even over a span of ten years. It's also, if we can be pardoned for some self-promotion, very damn funny.
And it's a damn sight less depressing than today's Drudge Report. Nobody had heard of Obama back then. Even us. Doesn't that tell you something?
