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How old is this site? I'm sure even in 2002 JPEG was a better option than GIF

I'm sure it's older than that, seeing it again has triggered a memory from I'm sure the late 90s.

According to the blog of the man who runs it, it was from 2002-2005: https://misterirvine.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/explain-entran...

"The poor design is also a way of making the fictional compiler (Rae Gates) seem to be lonely, naive, obsessed, deluded and out-of-touch. I, the real compiler, am only one of these."

Genius.

Also from his blog:

« I am a husband and father. The reason I was born was to become my daughter’s father. I was wise enough to notice and appreciate at the time, the slow ecstatic joy my child’s early years were giving me. So too have her later years. I will die happy. »

Beautiful.

https://misterirvine.wordpress.com/about/

see first entry here : https://web.archive.org/web/20021001000000*/https://www.entr...

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