Randall's been sitting on this since 20 Nov 2014?
I'd guess he bought the domain name with the assumption that he'd eventually find something to use it for.
XKCD: Meeting
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As an XKCD comic, I thought this one was just ok, but what made me post it to HN was when I went to check the availability of companyname.website and found out it redirected to the comic :)
I did the same thing this morning with the intention of recreating the web page from the first panel of the comic, but someone beat me to it to make this redirection (which have to admit I find less cool than my (and I guess many others) idea).
Someone? Didn't Randall do it? I believe that it's part of the joke.
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thanks. that makes more sense. probably the registrar uses IIS, then. got a downvote for that, btw. weirdest downvote ever. maybe I upset some hardcore IIS fan or something?
According to Netcraft, IIS (Microsoft) has about 27% marketshare, and I occasionally see an ASPX extension every now and then. No good reason you wouldn't see an IIS header, but I don't know why someone would downvote you for not noticing things. [1] http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/01/15/january-2015-we...
I don't know either, but they're really into it. I'm in negative numbers on every comment in this subtree. (except, hopefully, this one.)
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Explain XKCD usually does a pretty good job at explaining what's going on: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1493 (bla, bla, obligatory notice about explaining jokes and dissecting frogs here)
It explains jokes on all panels of the episode, but I cannot find a joke connecting panels together.
All of the panels happen during the same business meeting. The meeting is for a company that is successful, but no one is quite sure why. The people working for the company don't seem to know what the company even does.
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dig companyname.website companyname.website. 3217 IN A 184.168.221.2 curl -i -i http://companyname.website Location: http://xkcd.com Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Yes, it's a redirect. The domain is registered on GoDaddy and uses a domain anonymizer (you can't see who really registered it).
xkcd runs on IIS? I haven't seen an IIS header since 1997.
I was more concerned that Mr Monroe registered with GoDaddy.
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Actually. he rarely has comics in reserve. He has a notebook of ideas and sketches, and each day a few hours before a comic is set to go up, he picks one and draws and inks it. I've watched the process firsthand, and I was surprised as to how little lead time there is. When he knows he'll be busy he gets a few in the hopper, but it isn't his standard SOP (at least it didn't used to be).
Do you know him?
We've met a few times, but I learned this when I was escorting him around the Bay Area for a day during his book tour.
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According to Netcraft, IIS (Microsoft) has about 27% marketshare, and I occasionally see an ASPX extension every now and then. No good reason you wouldn't see an IIS header, but I don't know why someone would downvote you for not noticing things. [1] http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/01/15/january-2015-we...
I don't know either, but they're really into it. I'm in negative numbers on every comment in this subtree. (except, hopefully, this one.)
No, it's just because comments like "IIS sucks" or "my webserver > your webserver", like, "my programming language > your programming language", or, "my text editor > your text editor", are lame.
I'm not an IIS fan, and I didn't downvote you, but only because you were already < 1.
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It explains jokes on all panels of the episode, but I cannot find a joke connecting panels together.
So, XKCD is not actually all that funny in itself. Trying to "find a joke connecting panels together" is the wrong way to digest XKCD. The joke in this case is the same as most of the Beret Guy jokes: He has some sort of alien view of the world which has mired him in a 9-year-old's mentality, so that when we see him appear we are seeing an overly literal concept of what the adult world is about. The humor is not "ha-…
> This may be the reason XKCD has been so successful. By offering a comedic "buildup" which is insufficient to generate a "release" of hysterical laughter and all of the neurotransmittery goodness that comes with that, you are left trawling the archives for more and more humor.
I dunno about that. One of the things I appreciate most about xkcd is its whimsy. Seeing things from a different point of view, or having a bit of absurdity pointed out, is fun.
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I did the same thing this morning with the intention of recreating the web page from the first panel of the comic, but someone beat me to it to make this redirection (which have to admit I find less cool than my (and I guess many others) idea).
Someone? Didn't Randall do it? I believe that it's part of the joke.
Maybe I don't know, the whois info are hidden.
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I don't know either, but they're really into it. I'm in negative numbers on every comment in this subtree. (except, hopefully, this one.)
No, it's just because comments like "IIS sucks" or "my webserver > your webserver", like, "my programming language > your programming language", or, "my text editor > your text editor", are lame. I'm not an IIS fan, and I didn't downvote you, but only because you were already < 1.
sure, but I didn't say anything like that. I said I had no idea it still existed. I legitimately thought it was discontinued around 15 years ago.