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I bought the domain http://ftp.computer because it made me laugh.

I set up the site using an MS-DOS stysheet. It had a single button and it said “feed me”.

Clicking the button let you upload a file. It would spin for a while and then say “thank you, I am sated”.

In the background it would chop the file up into 140-character pieces of base64 and then tweet them out in order. There was also a Slack bot that would reassemble files for you by scraping the Twitter feed.

I did all of this because it was the dumbest thing I could think of that day.

I wish it was still up, but the domain was $65/year renewal and it wasn’t that funny to me.




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