h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

One wants a REM command -- is there one in HTML? If one could embed remarks, that might make one's page skeleton easier to navigate. I wish I could resize the window, though.

Funny, though -- lately, the times I've been on, there's maybe 40 people online. Same as ever.

OK....it's "pet the dummy" time!.......Whats' a REM command?

NM

Yeah I didn't get that either.

And, yeah, I've noticed a minumum of 40 peoplew online now they've speeded up everything.
I remember one saturday morning, I checked 'Who's online' and there was about ten people on. And as the morning went on, this number gradually started rising. I imagined all these people waking up and stomping over to their 'puter , y'know?

Actually, you're about right on the Researchers online thought!

Around here, it gets fired off early AM during the week, then lays dormant 'till the late afternoon. Weekends are a bit different. Monsy goes "Post bound" early Saturday morn 'til sometime late Sunday.....I get a few "crumb times" in between!

I don't mind, actually. I'm usually in the garage, anyway!

NM

Showing my age, I am.
In BASIC computer language, a remark line always begins REM. This tells the interpreter (the program that parses a program and executes it line by line) to skip the line because it's only human noise.

In other languages, starting a line with an asterisk constitutes a comment. And so I would visually demarcate various procedures/routines in a source text with
*----------------------------------
so that I could see where one began and another ended.

End of lesson. Sure is nice to be back online. Over at the Aroma Cafe I have just made a big joke at the expense of my ISP by bringing in a little sloth named Mindspring. He's in a cage, hanging off the perch, fast asleep. Imaginary revenge is mine!

Sorry, you've just reminded me of one of the first Watership Down websites I visited when I got the 'net.
http://asaville.home.mindspring.com/fanfic%20of%20.wd.html
First time I saw the site, at Urchin's house. must have been lasr June. I cracked up laughing

It must be wicked. Mindspring refuses to admit that it exists, and won't display it. 8-/

Sorry, wrathchild. sorry, everyone else. Cock up. Don't ask.

So, wtf's happened to that site?

It's owner, Amanda Saville, I think I can credit her for changing the course of my life.
Four days after getting the 'net, I found a certain Watership Down/Secret Of NIMH website, called The Greatest In Animation! And I was intrigued to what this NIMH thing was. But, I lost the link to this site, and was frantically searching around for it. So, I took the opportunity to reply to an email that Amanda sent me (which was in reply to one of mine), and asked her if she knew about this site. She did, and gave me a link.

And, of course, from The Greatest In Animation I went onto Thorn Valley, and fur was never the same again!