Parsing HTML with regex

pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 years

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/12950329

Exec@pawb.social · 3 years

Actually the original is from StackOverflow

MajorHavoc@programming.dev · 3 years

I think it’s older than that. Well, parts of it are.

Though I adore the addition of the fade to chaos in the 2009 Stack Overflow post, I recall seeing the exact early text from that answer linked and re-pasted on older CS forums as early as 2000. It needed posted a lot, shortly after XHTML became popular.

Part of the contextual humor of the 2009 SO answer, is it takes the trend of the previous answers - getting longer and less coherent each time it needed posted - and extended it to it’s logical conclusion.

I do think the Stack Overflow post is the definitive version.

I wish I could find the original, or something closer, because we could compare and measure our collective loss of sanity.