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@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
<!DOCTYPE html>
-<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="" xml:lang="">
+<html lang="" xml:lang="" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
- <meta charset="utf-8" />
- <meta name="generator" content="pandoc" />
- <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes" />
- <title>whereami</title>
- <style>
+<meta charset="utf-8"/>
+<meta content="pandoc" name="generator"/>
+<meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes" name="viewport"/>
+<title>whereami</title>
+<style>
html {
line-height: 1.5;
font-family: Georgia, serif;
@@ -169,8 +169,7 @@ credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.</p>
<p>Since you are on this page, you're presumably lost. That's
<em>ok</em>. I don't really get all this stuff either. Let's start with
some easy stuff.</p>
-<p><em>You're on the Internet</em>. Known to some as a <a
-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes">series of
+<p><em>You're on the Internet</em>. Known to some as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes">series of
tubes</a>, but in reality much more complicated than it has to be. In
basic sense, your computer called mine, and mine answered with directory
full of pages.</p>
@@ -179,9 +178,8 @@ router, which literally does what the name implies--it routes signals to
where they need to go to make things go beep. In the 60s and 70s,
routers tended to be people-based and would spend their time plugging
cables into and out of ports so calls could connect.</p>
-<p><img src="/static/human_router.jpg" /></p>
-<p><em>Image of a switchboard courtesy of <a
-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jersey_Telecom_switchboard_and_operator.jpg">Wikipedia
+<p><img src="/static/human_router.jpg"/></p>
+<p><em>Image of a switchboard courtesy of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jersey_Telecom_switchboard_and_operator.jpg">Wikipedia
contributors</a></em></p>
<p>Fortunately, we figured out that was dumb and made robots do the job
for us. Internet companies, governments, and anyone else with enough
@@ -220,8 +218,7 @@ or were just starting to be at least.</p>
social media; we somehow got coerced into profiles, templates, and
standards to make us easier for ad companies to study. It's not even
unreasonable to believe you're not even talking to real people on there,
-because there's a good chance of it now. <a
-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing">Astroturfing</a> is
+because there's a good chance of it now. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing">Astroturfing</a> is
not a secret government conspiracy, it's just business as usual at this
point. You used to be able to tell a human from a chatbot from the way
they write. I don't know if the bots at this point are smarter, or if
@@ -241,3 +238,4 @@ you wouldn't like this page... you did read all the way here through all
that pedantry didn't you?</p>
</body>
</html>
+