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The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

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Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

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Post by arrowsmith »

HeckFeck wrote: post #26
devjam wrote: post #20

What a gem! And a few more from the HTML source: As well as a style tag missing a closing '>' on the page template:

I noticed this too. Would be a safe bet it was hand crafted in notepad with no syntax highlighting. Might just feed it to the W3C validator for kicks. Update: The validator reported 42 errors before giving up: Fatal Error: Cannot recover after last error. Any further errors will be ignored. From line 56, column 1; to line 56, column 23 Verdana">↩ This w

> hand crafted in notepad with no syntax highlighting

Those were the days!

Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

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Post by bemusedthrow75 »

eigenket wrote: post #13
anta40 wrote: post #5

https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/page281.html How come a piece of tree (or whatever it is) is supposed to be an entrace of hell? Hmmm okay. Perhaps I don't get this Brits joke.

The flowers on the right hand side look like daisies and probably like 1-2cm across. The whole thing is probably about 20cm across. Its probably a mole-hill? It looks vaguely like it could be earth displaced from a tunneling devil if you squint a bit and go with the 2002 vibe.

Moles, though. You can't trust 'em.

Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

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Post by devjam »

arrowsmith wrote: post #31
HeckFeck wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I noticed this too. Would be a safe bet it was hand crafted in notepad with no syntax highlighting. Might just feed it to the W3C validator for kicks. Update: The validator reported 42 errors before giving up: Fatal Error: Cannot recover after last error. Any further errors will be ignored. From line 56, column 1; to line 56, column 23 Verdana">↩ This w

> hand crafted in notepad with no syntax highlighting Those were the days!

Save, open FTP/SCP client, copy to webserver, maybe poke/restart a service via SSH, back to browser, refresh... dammit, error, rinse repeat.

We're certainly spoiled having formatting, linting, tests and coverage all run on save these days :-)

Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

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Post by bemusedthrow75 »

PaulRobinson wrote: post #10

> "© J H Irvine 2002" Yes. This is a taste of what the web was like before it became shit. And it's the way it should be again. Weird, quirky, fun, no ad-tech, no trying to hard sell anything. God, I miss this era.

> no trying to hard sell anything

Apparently not even the coffee mug now, which is bitterly disappointing.

Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

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Post by Lio »

csmattryder wrote: post #12
anta40 wrote: post #5

https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/page281.html How come a piece of tree (or whatever it is) is supposed to be an entrace of hell? Hmmm okay. Perhaps I don't get this Brits joke.

It's incredibly convenient for us who commute home from Oracle's office in the area.

I wish I could up vote this comment twice. Larry would be proud.

Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

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Post by Lio »

KineticLensman wrote: post #29
PaulRobinson wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the Wessex Variant of the Mornington Crescent rules that mean... oh wait, wrong thread...

No! It's the Malebolge variant! (sigh)

Can you even use Malebolge on a Tuesday? That's definitely not canon.

Re: The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)

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Post by wizerdrobe »

gilleain wrote: post #14
anta40 wrote: post #5

https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/page281.html How come a piece of tree (or whatever it is) is supposed to be an entrace of hell? Hmmm okay. Perhaps I don't get this Brits joke.

Why are you so certain that you can recognise an entrance to hell when you see one :) ?

Must be the Devil, trying to sow seeds of doubt among us.
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