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# This takes me back to the days of the infinite thread.
Does anyone remember them? I think they're impossible now.
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 0:00, archived)
# Chevron
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 0:01, archived)
# It was an old idea investigated by Fnord.
If you replied to a post, and changed the number of the post to predict replying to your own future post - it would go on forever.

Quite hard to predict, but he did it here:
www.b3ta.com/board/1499825
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 0:02, archived)
# Ah, it now causes an error.
Back in 2003 this would cause a browser crash.
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 0:03, archived)
# Hahahahaha
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 0:03, archived)
# That's awesome
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 0:07, archived)
# Can't futurepost anymore :(
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 0:04, archived)
# I still don't get how that works....
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 0:04, archived)
# When you reply in a new window,
it should have an ID for the post you're replying to. Eg. 9587580.

If you change this ID to the post you're impending to create, it would be infinite. I think they fixed it now.
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 0:08, archived)
# Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 43 bytes) in /var/www/b3ta.com/core/init.php on line 178
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 0:05, archived)
# waaaaat.
Loads for me.
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 0:09, archived)
# Check the very bottom left....
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 0:11, archived)
# Looks like a regular massive stretched page to me.
(, Fri 17 Jul 2009, 0:13, archived)