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Walter Chandoha is considered the most influential creator of these things and made about 90,000 of them in his career, including a famous one titled “The Mob”. Jonathan Coulton sings “I didn’t want to be useless today” and repeats “I am looking at [these things]” in a song from his 2017 album Solid State. A search engine AI becomes sentient and wants to help humanity, only asking for these things in return, in a Naomi (-5[2])Kritzer story that won a 2016 (-5[1])Hugo (15[1])Award. That story is titled “[these objects] Please”. Dan Kaminsky quipped that “The internet was never designed to be secure. The internet was designed to (*) move [these things]”. A popular 1970s motivational poster added the text “Hang in there, baby” to one of these things. (10[1])For 10 points, an early kind of internet meme added text like “I can has cheezburger?” (10[1])to what objects? ■END■ (10[1])

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Corry Wanga neural-net processor; a thinking machineMacro Editors74-5
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Jerry VinokurovEight Megabytes And Constantly SwappingEdwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sins80-5
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Rob CarsonEdwardian Manifestation of All Colonial SinsEight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping12610
Matt Jacksonscreaming into the public static void main(String[] args)playing emacs while my parents are arguing14210
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