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| titletext = I used to do this all the time.
 
| titletext = I used to do this all the time.
 
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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
A character who has hair (not to be confused with [[Hairy]]) suggests to [[Black Hat]] that he is wasting his life on the Internet, and they should go explore the world. They appear to walk a great distance, through what appears to be a swamp or perhaps a forest in winter, across a plain, and down to a river valley. Despite traveling so far and through such varied landscapes, in the last panel, the character with hair admits that all he can think about is what a great [[LiveJournal]] post their trip would make. It appears that the plan to get the Internet off their mind has failed.
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In this comic, a character (who seems to have hair, so it’s not [[Cueball]]) suggests to Black Hat that he is wasting his life on the internet and they should go explore the world. They appear to walk a great distance, through what appears to be a swamp or perhaps a forest in winter, across a plain, and down to a river valley, at which point the first character can't help but think that the journey would make a great entry on Livejournal, thus indicating that he can't get his mind off of wanting to be on the computer. title text suggests that [[Randall Munrow|Randall]] similarly thinks about being on his computer while out doing other things.
  
LiveJournal is a website on which users can make accounts and, effectively, blog, although the site is designed around the premise that the blogs ought to be used as personal journals, with the ability to privatize the journal or only let certain friends see certain entries. LiveJournal was an early social network and an early blog platform and was a good way for people to let others know what was going on in their lives. Randall presented his comics on LiveJournal before using [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. Today, LiveJournal still exists, but its popularity has plummeted.
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{{w|Livejournal}} is a website on which users can make accounts and, effectively, blog; although the site is designed around the premise that the blogs ought to be used as personal journals, with the ability to privatize the journal or only let certain friends see certain entries. Livejournal was an early social network and an early blog platform, and was a good way for people to let others know what was going on in their lives. As of 2012, Livejournal still exists; although sites like Facebook have become far more powerful and popular sites for sharing one's daily life.
 
 
The title text suggests that [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] has overcome a tendency to think about how he will document what he has been doing, rather than concentrate on the thing itself.
 
 
 
From ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'':
 
{{quote|This was before Twitter et. al. Now we just post while doing it.}}
 
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
:[Black Hat and Not-Hairy are talking in a room with a computer on.]
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:[Two men are talking in a room with a computer on. One is wearing a black hat.]
:Not-Hairy: I feel like I'm wasting my life on the internet. Let's walk around the world.
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:First man: I feel like I'm wasting my life on the internet. Let's walk around the world.
:Black Hat: Sounds good.
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:Man with the black hat: Sounds good.
 
:[The two men are shown walking through trees.]
 
:[The two men are shown walking through trees.]
 
:[The two men are shown walking on flat stretch, with mountains in the distance.]
 
:[The two men are shown walking on flat stretch, with mountains in the distance.]
 
:[The two men are shown in a magnificent canyon. They stand, silently looking at the scene.]
 
:[The two men are shown in a magnificent canyon. They stand, silently looking at the scene.]
:Not-Hairy: And yet all I can think is, "This will make for a great LiveJournal entry."
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:First man: And yet all I can think is, "This will make for a great LiveJournal entry."
 
 
==Trivia==
 
* This used to be one of the [[Footer comics|footer comics]] featured in the bottom segment of [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com].
 
* The image used in the logo of xkcd is from the first panel of this comic, showing only the characters and the desk.
 
 
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
  
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[[Category:Internet]]
 
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