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How long had Comic Sans been used on httpd status pages? (The mind reels…)

    Revision 1.2, Sat Jul 12 23:55:35 2014 UTC (19 months, 1 week ago) by reyk 

    Use Comic Sans (or Chalkboard) as the default font for HTTP error
    messages because we love web hipsters.

    ok beck@

r1.3 added blinking to the page.

I love it!

> r1.3 added blinking to the page.

... because epileptics should suffer, apparently.

Hey, this is a real thing! <blink> will cause people with epilepsy difficulty, ranging from anguish to a full seizure.

Since it was released in 5.8, I believe.

OpenBSD projects tend to use Comic Sans as a matter of course as a ward against hipsters[1].

[1]: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/bsdcan14-libressl/mgp00025.htm...

People who use the term "hipsters" to describe "anyone who is not like me" are the new hipsters.

They said web hipsters, I think they know they are basically the security obsessed cvs hipsters themselves.

The irony here is that using/liking something specifically because it makes you unusual, and wards off people who aren't like you, is exactly what hipster means.

So OpenBSD are a bunch of hipsters.

Pretty sure they were security hipsters before it was cool. ;)

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