Broadband invoice stamped “OVERDUE,” with a handwritten note saying “Worth it.”

Worth the Internet

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Growing up, we had our fair share of old timers in the neighbourhood who would say things like, ‘Nothing good ever happened after 11pm.’

At some point I was drifting towards being one of those ‘Nothing good ever happened on the interweb’ people, until I came across arguably the greatest edit ever made on Wikipedia.

Before-and-after comparison of a 1904 photograph of Piper Gilbert Kerr playing bagpipes beside a penguin, showing Wikipedia’s addition of the word “indifferent” to the caption.

The internet gets a lot wrong, but every now and then it gives you something like this. Someone, somewhere, looked at that caption and decided it could be better.

And every time I remember it, I think to myself, ‘…yep, this is why I pay for the internet.’

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