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A list of 52 words by uselessness.

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Before there was Wordie, there was... Notepad. Last night I fired up my old laptop for the first time in a couple years. It was a trip down memory lane, for I discovered that this machine (once presumed dead) was in fact still quite alive, and held many files I had forgotten about. One of those files was a text document holding the following list of words. Guess I've been a logophile for a while.

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  • uselessness commented on the list from-the-vault

    The "date modified" on the file was February 2005. I wish I remembered the origins of this list, all I know for sure is that I compiled myself it for fun back in college. Who knew there would one day be a web site for doing exactly that (only better)?

    October 8, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list from-the-vault

    Love it. A pre-Wordie Wordie list. Makes you want to go back and dig through that old pile of floppies....

    No, not really.

    October 8, 2007

  • oroboros commented on the list from-the-vault

    I had to transfer all mine off of an actual notepad! :o)

    October 9, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list from-the-vault

    What?? Handwriting? How quaint.

    October 9, 2007

  • jennarenn commented on the list from-the-vault

    Floppies!!! Did the 5" ones actually flop? I don't quite remember....

    October 9, 2007

  • seanahan commented on the list from-the-vault

    In the future, there will be a web site for doing every possible exact task.

    Oh wait...

    October 9, 2007

  • trivet commented on the list from-the-vault

    They totally flopped!

    More of a flap, really. I remember twiddling with them a lot.

    October 9, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list from-the-vault

    Oh yeah, they were floppy. And if you flopped them too much, they retaliated by not ever working again.

    October 9, 2007

  • uselessness commented on the list from-the-vault

    I had more fun playing with the little latch on the floppy drive door, than the floppy itself. Later I would take a liking to spinning CDs around my index finger.

    October 9, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list from-the-vault

    Right! They had a latch to keep them from escaping! Ah, the memories....

    October 9, 2007

  • trivet commented on the list from-the-vault

    Did you ever take the little disc out of the floppy and play with it? That was fun, but oh-so-against the rules...

    October 10, 2007

  • uselessness commented on the list from-the-vault

    Yes! That was the floppiest part! I also had a bad habit of bouncing mouse trackballs around the house.

    October 10, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list from-the-vault

    Ouch. Those things hurt. And they always seemed to have been made of some carcinogenic material.

    October 10, 2007