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Hello New Web Development Team Member!

Cat on laptop via dougwoods (https://www.flickr.com/photos/deerwooduk/)

.newhire {
name:kirkaracha
position: joining web development team
background: decades of front and back end development
background-padding: years of MeFi membership
previous experience: sportsfilter
pets: cats
}

Unsung heroes of illustration

photo of colored drawing pencils MetaFilter member ' bouvin' posted about Pete Beard, who has just published his 100th episode of 'Unsung Heroes of Illustration', a series which covers illustrators born between 1850 and 1910.

Why do some people call a remote control a clicker?

"...one of the most influential and intriguing buttons in history." Community member brundlefly links to a story of the Zenith Space Command, one of the earliest examples of a remote control for television. Many memories ensue!

#metafilter #bestofmetafilter #retro #remotecontrol #remote #tv #television #history, #zenithspacecommand #cllicker

New Mefi Events!

Week 5, Mar 27 - Apr 2 Get tickets here!

A Q&A with Ryan North, Webcomic Maker, 29 March 2023 | 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM EST

Ryan North is here to A your Qs! If only there were a better way to put that, but sadly, there is not. Ryan's been a webcomic maker since 2003 with Dinosaur Comics - www.qwantz.com - and most recently he's writing the Fantastic Four for Marvel. He's written bestselling nonfiction guides to time travel and world domination too, but then one time he got stuck in a hole with his dog, so let's keep our expectations for how clever he is moderated here. Discussion with Ryan North facilitated by John Harris.

A Q&A with Drew Curtis, Founder and Maintainer of Fark, 31 March 2023 | 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM EST

Fark is a couple of years older than MetaFilter, and has a fairly different, more rancorous culture. (It has been described as β€œrowdy.”) While it was something of a bad boy of the early Web, its rowdyness would be far surpassed by sites like Something Awful, 4chan, and worse. Meanwhile Fark has continued being itself all this time, posting community-submitted links and offering entertaining commentary on them with a fair dose of editorial selection for 24 years. We’ll talk with Drew about a variety of topics related to Fark and the Web. Discussion with Drew Curtis facilitated by John Harris.

03/27/23
by taz

πŸŽ‰ Woo! New Mod! "Hello Everyone! Please join me welcoming our newly-hired Moderator: Brandon Blatcher!"

02/16/23
taz

Metafilter podcast 190: New Year, New Me... Fi is up!

01/11/23
taz

Podcast 188: "Big Stride Moonshot" is up! πŸŽ§πŸŒ™πŸš€πŸ’«

12/05/22
taz

Highlighting the best bits from the MetaFilter universe

MetaFilter started as a community weblog in 1999, later added question and answers, then music by members, jobs, projects by members, a podcast, and finally an area dedicated to meetups.

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