I'm working on a website for a consulting business with a friend of mine (note: the business has two consultants but no business at the moment; this is early steps).
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I'm working on a website for a consulting business with a friend of mine (note: the business has two consultants but no business at the moment; this is early steps). Using a Hugo theme I downloaded, and saw that it has some placeholder text (see image). I was interested in who wrote the text so I searched.
I still don't know who the author was, but now I have a fun way to find web pages that haven't been completed at businesses, universities, nonprofits, etc.
Here, you try! Just paste the following into your favorite search engine:
in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth
#words #literature #webdev #search #fun
@guyjantic Maybe this could be the author?
https://setonkeough.com/history/far-far-away-behind-the-word-mountains/ -
@guyjantic Maybe this could be the author?
https://setonkeough.com/history/far-far-away-behind-the-word-mountains/@adipoeserPursch Ooh, maybe. It's worth investigating.
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I'm working on a website for a consulting business with a friend of mine (note: the business has two consultants but no business at the moment; this is early steps). Using a Hugo theme I downloaded, and saw that it has some placeholder text (see image). I was interested in who wrote the text so I searched.
I still don't know who the author was, but now I have a fun way to find web pages that haven't been completed at businesses, universities, nonprofits, etc.
Here, you try! Just paste the following into your favorite search engine:
in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth
#words #literature #webdev #search #fun
I'm much more entertained by the diagnostic opportunities of this variant on loren ipsum dolor but I decided to see if I can track down the quote, anyway. I don't think web search is going to help. I found a search engine claiming to provide "oldest results" (www.ae.studio/oldest-search) and it gives me a fisheries site from 2003. I think if I really want to know (and I guess maybe I might) I'll have to use book-specific search engines.
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I'm much more entertained by the diagnostic opportunities of this variant on loren ipsum dolor but I decided to see if I can track down the quote, anyway. I don't think web search is going to help. I found a search engine claiming to provide "oldest results" (www.ae.studio/oldest-search) and it gives me a fisheries site from 2003. I think if I really want to know (and I guess maybe I might) I'll have to use book-specific search engines.
@guyjantic Good luck then.
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I'm much more entertained by the diagnostic opportunities of this variant on loren ipsum dolor but I decided to see if I can track down the quote, anyway. I don't think web search is going to help. I found a search engine claiming to provide "oldest results" (www.ae.studio/oldest-search) and it gives me a fisheries site from 2003. I think if I really want to know (and I guess maybe I might) I'll have to use book-specific search engines.
wow. books.google.com only returns four results (much more recent than 2003), and they're all programming texts, so I assume the text in question is stuffed somewhere in their code?
This "find the origins of filler text" exercise is more interesting than I thought.
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wow. books.google.com only returns four results (much more recent than 2003), and they're all programming texts, so I assume the text in question is stuffed somewhere in their code?
This "find the origins of filler text" exercise is more interesting than I thought.
@guyjantic
Maybe this can replace lorem ipsum. -
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wow. books.google.com only returns four results (much more recent than 2003), and they're all programming texts, so I assume the text in question is stuffed somewhere in their code?
This "find the origins of filler text" exercise is more interesting than I thought.
This is becoming a fun #mystery. The answer is probably something silly, but I haven't found it, yet. Score:
- Google books: just some programming books that seem to have this boilerplate somewhere in them
- Oldest search result: This site from 2003 (I am thinking it is not the original source)
- A dozen or so academic databases (OneFile Complete, Academic Search Plus, etc.) through my university library: Nothing (I searched Vokalia *and *Constantia in whatever full-text option they had)
- The complete works of Oscar Wilde: Surprisingly, nothing. This is, of course, just one book and it might not have a whimsical thing he wrote one time, but I don't know how I'd find something like that.
It looks like, by about 2009, there was a WordPress theme with this filler text in it. The 2003 result might be some leftover WP content, too, AFAIK.
Maybe some web developer with a streak of e.e.cummings and Lewis Carroll just put their own delightful little vignette into their work?
I'm probably missing a really obvious place to look (as is my wont), but right now I got nothin'.
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This is becoming a fun #mystery. The answer is probably something silly, but I haven't found it, yet. Score:
- Google books: just some programming books that seem to have this boilerplate somewhere in them
- Oldest search result: This site from 2003 (I am thinking it is not the original source)
- A dozen or so academic databases (OneFile Complete, Academic Search Plus, etc.) through my university library: Nothing (I searched Vokalia *and *Constantia in whatever full-text option they had)
- The complete works of Oscar Wilde: Surprisingly, nothing. This is, of course, just one book and it might not have a whimsical thing he wrote one time, but I don't know how I'd find something like that.
It looks like, by about 2009, there was a WordPress theme with this filler text in it. The 2003 result might be some leftover WP content, too, AFAIK.
Maybe some web developer with a streak of e.e.cummings and Lewis Carroll just put their own delightful little vignette into their work?
I'm probably missing a really obvious place to look (as is my wont), but right now I got nothin'.
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@guyjantic
Maybe. The beginning looks like word salad. -
@FritzAdalis a. This is awesome; why didn't I think of archive.org?
b. ... I don't think this is the source. It's on amazon with a publication date of 2017 (14 years after the earliest web source I've found so far), and there are chunks of text from classic works in there, like the opening of The Metamorphosis by Kafka. The filler text is repeated a lot, too.
