This seems like a… lot. Sometimes if someone spends too much time online, they start to see conspiracies where there aren’t any.

Good point. Seems like there would be some sort of record if they were sued. Maybe they got a cease-and-desist letter, and canceled it all before a real lawsuit tho

The show’s three main characters were Myo (a rabbit), Ga (a turtle) and Kuu (a chicken), who was later renamed to Co. (along with a fish named Auryong in 2006)

The show was based on Byeoljubujeon with many modifications made to the story, such as the rabbit’s liver being replaced by a yeouiju.

Various animations were made for the series, however only a few of them have been found, while most of the others only have a few images avaliable. The only flash game made for the series has been found on several websites, but a lot of the series’ other content is still missing.

The hunt is on for more original newspaper strip art by the late, great John M. Burns – and downthetubes readers out there may be able to help.

“Eartha” was a colour weekly strip, the tale of a Stone Age cave girl preserved in ice for 10,000 years, revived in 1981 when a nuclear waste site in the north of England is excavated.

The strip appeared in Britain’s News of the World “Sunday” magazine from September 1981 to July 1982. Written by Donne Avenell and illustrated by John M. Burns, 52 full colour instalments were commissioned following her adventures, but only 45 were published.

Right? I would have liked a lot more details.

Crypto was created with awesome ideas in mind: decentralization, privacy, etc. But it didn’t end up being that at.

I still invest and believe in crypto, but I wish the market would tank and crypto went back to be what it was intended to be: alternative money/bartering.

A staggering $2 billion worth of Bitcoin has been reactivated after more than a decade of inactivity.

The digital vaults, each holding 10,000 bitcoin, were reactivated on Thursday, July 3 and Friday, July 4, after lying untouched since 2011.

The wallets, tagged as “12tLs…xj2me” and “1KbrS…AWJYm,” moved their full balances to new addresses within 30 minutes of each other. The transfers—spotted by blockchain tracking services Whale Alert and Lookonchain—mark the first time the assets have been touched in 14 years.

Back in 2011, when Bitcoin traded at roughly $0.78 per coin, these wallets represented a modest investment of around $7,800 each. Today, thanks to a nearly 13,982,800 percent increase, the contents of each wallet are estimated at more than $1.1 billion—placing their owners squarely in the rarefied ranks of crypto’s “whale” class.

“In the early days of Bitcoin, there were quite a few early enthusiasts who mined BTC or bought it for a fraction of a dollar, but most of them either sold it much earlier—for millions instead of billions—or spent it on something trivial at the time, like the two pizzas famously bought for 10,000 bitcoins in 2010,” Nic Puckrin, crypto analyst, investor and founder of The Coin Bureau, told Newsweek.

“Holding on to such a staggering amount requires either a great deal of foresight, when the asset is already soaring by many thousands, or a great deal of forgetfulness,” he explained.

Despite the digital trail, little is known about the wallets’ owners. The sudden activity—on consecutive days, and involving identical sums—has led analysts to believe the wallets may be linked.

With the wallets now valued at over $2 billion, the bitcoin represents a 140,000-fold return on the original investments. But cashing in isn’t as easy as it may seem.

“There’s no such thing as payouts or dividends when it comes to Bitcoin—like gold, it’s simply an asset that can be sold in exchange for its market value in a fiat currency,” Puckrin explained. “As long as the person still has access to the private key to the wallet where the Bitcoin is held, which it seems they do if they moved it to a new address, they can sell this Bitcoin. However, given the amount, they would have to sell it very carefully, because disposing of this amount of Bitcoin all at once could crash the price.”

Nobody knows the identity of the Bitcoin owner or owners, but Puckrin explained it is unlikely that they will come forward.

“It’s highly unlikely this person will go public, especially considering the physical danger several prominent crypto figures have found themselves in lately from so-called ‘wrench attacks,’ such as David Balland, co-founder of cryptocurrency wallet firm Ledger, who was kidnapped with his wife in January,” he said. “Apart from that, early adopters of Bitcoin tend to value privacy and anonymity, so there’s no reason why they would want to reveal their identities to the world.”

I was hoping for superpowers.

Love this!

Congrats and thanks for all you do! I love this instance, and love the fact that you go your own way and don’t micro-manage us users.

Yep! I remember seeing an ad in Omni magazine that showed someone sitting at a computer. And in big bold print it said, “Imagine being able to read the news with just a few clicks of a keyboard!” Then going on to say someday that may happen.

And boy did it ever. But what’s so funny that ad seemed so futuristic and cool. Now we do it from our pocket. Crazy.

I still have that magazine by the way. I should dig it out and scan that ad!

A/S/L

I legit got laid doing that in aol chatrooms. One girl I ended up dating for 4 years. Met her in aol chat room. Started with a/s/l. Met her at the food court in the mall. Kissed her at her car. She moved in with me a month later.

Good times. I ended up being clever as fuck in chat. Thankfully women like humor and wit more than looks. It’s the only reason I got laid then and the only reason I get laid now. haha

As someone pointed out, this turned out to be a rendering.

I was totally into the that art scene! lmao I’d even print that shit out on my dot-matrix printer!

Yep!

I remember a programming course in the summer that left an impression, though I foolishly never pursued it further.

Yep, even tho I do ok and I’m retired, I definitely wish that I had kept pursing it. I actually enjoyed programming in my BASIC class in school. But for some reason, it just never clicked with me that I could do it as a job.

I would be way wealthier if I had pursued it. I have no excuse. It literally just never occurred to me that I could do it as a job.

I grew up in a very rural town, population less that 2,000 people.

Now that I retired early and collect a pension, I am looking to pick up where I left off. Just for fun. :)

Trying to install linux on my PC today as a matter of fact.

You know, I was starting to wonder if it was a render. It all looks good, but the lamp kept throwing me off. It’s the part that looks rendered to me. Thanks for the catch!

Yeah, I can definitely see myself going down the same path as you. lol

Hmmm, maybe. But I don’t remember it being nearly as prominent right now. Here on Lemmy, post a picture of a cute dog and prepare for replies with variations of, “Yeah, well now that Trump is president, get used to not being able to afford a dog!” or “Wow, look at that. I’ll never be able to afford a house now. Since fascists voted in a dictator. The closest I’ll get to a dog is having to eat dog food because it’s all I can afford on my way to the deathcamps!”

Ugh, it just EVERYWHERE now. Also back then it seemed to be smarter people arguing because the cost of admission was higher to get into the computer world–both in intelligence and money.

But to your point, I wasn’t THAT smart or rich, so I guess I was never in the hardcore argument worlds. I was reading BASIC magazine and trying to write cool programs that showed colored lines. BBS was more of “OMG I am talking to someone in another state without using the mail!” lolol

Now the internet is full of assholes who aren’t just autistic, but are self-aware assholes who profit from it in terms of money or attention.

100 percent. I was born in 1969. For me the best decade was the 90’s. But I had a lot of fun in the 80’s too.