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xkcd #979

Wisdom of the Ancients

by Randall MunroePublished: License: CC BY-NC 2.5

Comic: Wisdom of the Ancients (xkcd #979). Transcript below.

Wisdom of the Ancients © Randall Munroe · xkcd · CC BY-NC 2.5

Hover textAll long help threads should have a sticky globally-editable post at the top saying 'DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here's what we've figured out so far ...'

Why it lands

DenverCoder9 became the name for every forum post that ends in "never mind, fixed it" with no explanation. The poem is the experience of finding the one person in the world with your exact problem, and discovering they took the answer with them.

Transcript

  1. NEVER HAVE I FELT SO CLOSE TO ANOTHER SOUL AND YET SO HELPLESSLY ALONE AS WHEN I GOOGLE AN ERROR AND THERE'S ONE RESULT A THREAD BY SOMEONE WITH THE SAME PROBLEM AND NO ANSWER LAST POSTED TO IN 2003
  2. WHO WERE YOU, DENVERCODER9?
  3. WHAT DID YOU SEE?!

Credits

Original
Wisdom of the Ancients — Randall Munroe, xkcd

The English page shows the original image unmodified. The Japanese page shows an adaptation by wtfe²: the lettering was erased from the art and replaced with a Japanese translation. The adaptation is shared under the same license as the original.