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| date = June 12, 2006 ...l studies, proposed a still-disputed theory that the human brain is unique from that of other species in that it includes a fundamental Language Acquisitio

...mics research institute founded by {{w|J. Craig Venter}}, Ph.D. in October 2006. Although what Jill is describing may be possible this comic must take plac The title text is another common retort from "old timers" that they have been doing X since before the younger person wa

...t 'Dracorex hogwartsia' and 'Stygimoloch spinifer' (meaning 'horned dragon from the river of death') in the semifinals. ...ing system. They started at v10.0 "Cheetah", and have moved through genera from there in no order that this chart can make out.

...ion of all the carbon dioxide gas forces the contents of the bottle out. A 2006 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjbJELjLgZg Mythbusters episode] explored t [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

...well for a return to normalcy. [Note: Click to read context for the cancer comics. She's doing well.] ...0/family-illness/ link] referenced in the image text, which is a blog post from 2011 regarding his fiancée's breast cancer.

| date = May 19, 2006 ...indicates that one of his loved ones used to be afraid of being taken away from him and being forgotten. It is not explicitly made clear whether the loved

...e>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Randall Munroe|Comics featuring Randall Munroe]].''</noinclude> ...If? 2 signature.png|300px|right|thumb|Randall's signature with [[Cueball]] from ''[[What If? 2]]'']]

| date = January 31, 2006 [[Scott]] appears to be a friend of [[Randall]]. Comics 57 through 59 all have the title text ''[[:Category:Opening dialogue by Sco

| date = January 1, 2006 In the title text, as in some other early comics, [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] explains the joke rather than adding to it.

| date = January 30, 2006 ...ournal]]. The [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|last eleven comics]] were posted both on LiveJournal and on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] after

| date = February 27, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = March 22, 2006 ...s the "strict form" of iambic pentameter. In practice, poets often strayed from the strict count of iambs as the image text suggests. Wikipedia offers two

| date = March 1, 2006 ..., and they have to restart. Using Star Power temporarily boosts the score from each note, so the player can clear a difficult section of the song even if

| date = April 5, 2006 ...s that by ignoring the paths and taking the {{w|Desire path|desire lines}} from corner to corner, his route will be shorter, and he calculates that he coul

| date = April 10, 2006 ...island and opens a zoo/theme park for dinosaurs cloned from DNA recovered from blood found in fossilized mosquitoes. Naturally, everything goes haywire, a

| date = April 12, 2006 ...C. Escher)|Relativity}}", in which a series of staircases and arches come from the floor, ceiling, and the walls in all directions, each with people stand

| date = November 3, 2006 ...such a manner makes it seem counter-intuitive that it would yield &minus;1 from basic analysis. The above linked Wikipedia page goes into good detail of ho

| date = April 19, 2006 ...responded by giving the outcome of your command. This sparse context arose from the fact that games in the 1970s and 1980s needed to run on limited memory

| date = May 3, 2006 ...e Plan}} (not A Simple Plan), which was released in 2004 as a first single from the band's second album "{{w|Still Not Getting Any...}}" The lyrics of the

| date = May 12, 2006 [[Category:Comics with lowercase text]]

| date = May 15, 2006 ...tagonist, {{w|Marty McFly}} (played by {{w|Michael J. Fox}}), travels back from 1985 (present day for him) to 1955 and accidentally interferes with his own

| date = May 22, 2006 ...ll]] has (by some ritual, judging by the {{w|pentagram}}) summoned himself from a {{w|Multiverse|parallel universe}}. [[Hairy]] suggests that Cueball shoul

| date = May 24, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = May 29, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]

| date = June 2, 2006 "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" is the signature catchphrase from the 1939 movie ''{{w|Gone With The Wind (film)|Gone With The Wind}}'', whic

| date = June 7, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring real people]]

| date = June 19, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = June 21, 2006 ...y desk. I shouldn't have listened to the 70's hit marathon on the way home from work the night before.

| date = July 31, 2006 ...ed a zoo or theme park for dinosaurs that he has cloned from DNA recovered from blood found in fossilized mosquitoes. After a computer programmer shuts dow

| date = August 7, 2006 ...its apparently-existential meaning, a segfault cuts him off to prevent him from doing so.

| date = August 11, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = August 21, 2006 ...the "Care Bear Stare," in which the Bears stand together and radiate light from their respective tummy symbols. These combine to form a ray of love and goo

| date = August 28, 2006 .... Root (sometimes called the superuser) has complete system powers, exempt from all access controls; it is similar to a Windows administrator, however even

...g. Its art style is minimalist, told through simple [[stick figure]]s. New comics are posted every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday and are accompanied by a [[T ...nes in some comics suggest that Randall may have erased gridlines in these comics. In 2012, Randall revived the blue grid as a background image for ''[[what

...ht]]. It was among the [[:Category:First day on LiveJournal|first thirteen comics]] posted to LiveJournal within 12 minutes on September 30, 2005, on the fir There are two possible references here. One is from the book ''{{w|Contact (novel)|Contact}}'' by Carl Sagan, where the existen

| date = July 26, 2006 ...y enough, the webcomic [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=805 Dinosaur Comics] had a reference to Edgar Allan Poe three weeks before the xkcd comic was p

| date = January 1, 2006 ...s the logic for splitting 70 into 7, 5, and 2; as with many of the earlier comics, the title text explains the joke rather than adding to it. 7*5*2 is a {{w|

| date = July 21, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = August 30, 2006 ...her Randall's true intent behind this somewhat cryptic comic, but it seems from the heart that the two are engaging in sexual activity in the pit.

| date = May 26, 2006 ''{{w|Snakes on a Plane}}'' is a 2006 movie starring {{w|Samuel L. Jackson}}. It features (surprisingly) snakes,

| date = September 13, 2006 ...ball calls out to and Black Hat while they are some distance apart as seen from the side. Black Hat is holding an arm out towards Cueball making a gesture

| date = February 1, 2006 [[Scott]] appears to be a friend of [[Randall Munroe]]. Comics 57 through 59 all have the title text ''[[:Category:Opening dialogue by Sco

| date = September 20, 2006 ...omage to similar events in classic literature, notably the "balcony scene" from {{w|William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare's}} play {{w|Romeo and Juliet}}

| date = September 22, 2006 ...ral buttons repeatedly to mimic Guitar Hero, which would not only distract from driving, but also cause chaos in the car.

| date = September 25, 2006 ...ation of force from another object, which acts as the transfer of momentum from one object to another.

| date = September 27, 2006 ...> to access the first element in the array. Most "modern" (read: descended from {{w|C (programming language)|C}}) languages use 0 as the index for the firs

{{List of comics}} This is a list of comics from 1 to 500.

...sidency''' {{w|Jimmy Carter}} was the {{w|President of the United States}} from 1977-1981. He lost all popularity after he was viewed as mishandling severa .... The "New Coke" introduction is considered one of the biggest PR blunders from a major company ever.

...title text is in reference to a post left on the Yahoo! Answers website in 2006 by a submitter known as "kavya," who asks [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ho [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = May 31, 2006 This comic refers to several unexpected plot twists from various Hollywood movies and combines them into one giant twist invented by

...04-2005. [[Randall]] published [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal|his first comics]] there. ...5 at around the level 'Wordpress' is at now, but declined through 2005 and 2006 until it has plateaued until virtually nothing.]

...t served as a humorous advisory message to users about the contents of the comics. It stated: ...the [[Footnote#3._Bitcoin_addresses|previous footnote]], were both removed from the site. While a [[Footnote#5._Current_footnote|new footnote]] was added 2

| date = June 5, 2006 ...alfallacyis.com/false-cause statistical ploy] is used again in a few other comics, like [[523: Decline]], [[552: Correlation]], and [[925: Cell Phones]].

| date = April 7, 2006 ...such as by preventing media from playing on any device besides the device from which the purchase is made. It is used by several major companies, as it ma

| date = November 6, 2006 ...rences the tagline "If you die in the game, you die in real life" from the 2006 horror movie {{w|Stay Alive}} (released a few months before this comic), wh

...t date in the xkcd database. These comics do not have a known post date--> 2006 ...used it instead, so it wouldn't appear out of place among the other comics from that period. This is why this comic [[:Category:No date|doesn't have a date

| date = September 1, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]

| date = January 4, 2006 ...was among the [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|last eleven comics]] posted both on LiveJournal and on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] after the n

| date = January 6, 2006 ...was among the [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|last eleven comics]] posted both on LiveJournal and on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] after the n

| date = January 27, 2006 ...was among the [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|last eleven comics]] posted both on LiveJournal and on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] after the n

| date = January 9, 2006 ...was among the [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|last eleven comics]] posted both on LiveJournal and on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] after the n

| date = January 12, 2006 ...was among the [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|last eleven comics]] posted both on LiveJournal and on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] after the n

| date = January 14, 2006 ...was among the [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|last eleven comics]] posted both on LiveJournal and on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] after the n

| date = January 17, 2006 ...was among the [[:Category:Posted on LiveJournal after xkcd.com|last eleven comics]] posted both on LiveJournal and on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] after the n

...omic was released seven days earlier on LiveJournal than on xkcd.com (25/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day--> ...posting day. It was released on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com] on January 25, 2006, seven days after originally being posted on LiveJournal. See the [[#Trivia

...omic was released three days earlier on xkcd.com than on LiveJournal (21/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day--> ...shared the same posting day. It was released on LiveJournal on January 21, 2006, three days after originally being posted on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. S

...comic was released two days earlier on xkcd.com than on LiveJournal (23/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day--> ...shared the same posting day. It was released on LiveJournal on January 23, 2006, two days after originally being posted on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. See

...comic was released two days earlier on xkcd.com than on LiveJournal (25/1 2006). We use the earliest possible day--> ...shared the same posting day. It was released on LiveJournal on January 25, 2006, two days after originally being posted on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. See

| date = April 24, 2006 The line spoken in the comic is from the song "{{w|Be Prepared (song)|Be Prepared}}", which Scar sings in the fi

| date = April 14, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]

| date = July 10, 2006 ...mplies that things won't end well, and possibly that the counter-offensive from [[47: Counter-Red Spiders|the previous comic in the series]] had failed.

| date = September 15, 2006 ...these situations by creating a "buffer" of comics (that is, making several comics ahead of time) in anticipation for these events. However, if the buffer run

.... The 192.168/16 subnet is reserved for private networks and traffic to or from addresses on that subnet and will not be routed by most internet-facing rou ...traced, {{tvtropes|TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse|the call is coming from a phone inside the victim's home}}.

| date = March 6, 2006 ...er the writers of Family Guy derived the word from this comic, heard of it from some other source, or thought of it independently is unknown.

| date = March 13, 2006 ...n public. As noted in the strip, there are "levels" of curse words ranging from those "mild" words that are more acceptable to use, to those "severe" words

| date = February 6, 2006 ...game of the 2006 season, {{w|Super Bowl XL}}, was played on the evening of 2006-02-05, the day before this comic was released.

...|Michael_Richards#2006_Laugh_Factory_incident| Laugh Factory Incident}} of 2006. :[Peter Sagal running away from from a very surprised pathologist.]

| date = April 17, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = April 3, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = July 3, 2006 ...These extra terms are sometimes called "fictitious forces," as they result from the choice of the frame of reference. The mathematics required to describe

...once' and 'Some men have explosive orgasms' both work for the Great Lakes from west to east (Paddle-to-the-Sea order). ...more upstairs than heaven and thus God. Given the snarky tone of most xkcd comics take, it is likely a corporeal neighbor that is being suspected, but it is

| date = February 3, 2006 Other comics with a similar theme about finding or taking unexplored paths, instead of f

| date = October 11, 2006 ...rt}} saw trends such as lowbrow and installation art gain attention. Apart from a rejection of modernism, however, it is difficult to outline postmodernism

...of anger before breaking up with him. This seems to mirror the plot of the 2006 comedy film ''{{w|My Super Ex-Girlfriend}}'', in which the eponymous charac From ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'':

| date = February 8, 2006 The song is from the perspective of a young teenage boy who has a crush on his best friend's

| date = December 4, 2006 ...you criticize something that is out of your reach, or that has been denied from you.

| date = July 14, 2006 | titletext = You laugh to keep from crying, you do math to keep from crying...

| date = March 17, 2006 ...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

| date = March 24, 2006 [[Category:Comics with color]]

| date = March 27, 2006 ...of the Dodge Viper available on the third and fourth generations of Viper from 2003-2010. It was a very expensive sports car.

| date = December 20, 2006 ...ver, it would give incorrect results with books in languages that are read from right to left, such as most Jewish prayer books.

| date = August 9, 2006 | titletext = Both the skateboards I owned were pretty cheap and broke from heavy use; I'm gonna get a really nice one if I move to the city.

| date = October 2, 2006 The beat frequency is the rate at which two frequencies transition from being ''{{w|phase (waves)|in phase}}'' with each other to being ''out of ph

| date = February 13, 2006 [[Category:Comics with color]]

| date = February 10, 2006 ...elings of love via circuit analysis, and could be interpreted as a comment from Randall about how this comic has brought together love and circuit analysis

| date = June 14, 2006 ...t, rule changes have been introduced to specifically exclude those animals from taking part, which may be why this team has had to work its way down to mee

| date = May 8, 2006 [[Category:Comics with color]]

| date = May 10, 2006 ...ines representing his wanderings are a frequent theme of ''Family Circus'' comics. {{w|Obsessive-compulsive disorder}} (OCD) is a mental illness that compels

..., lose) or the circumstances under which they won (or lost) that is unique from all previous winners (or losers). It's worth noting that some of these 'fir The title text refers to the fact that {{w|Twitter}} was founded in 2006. Obama won in 2008, so at the time of the comic it was true that no white m

...e|I draw things. There's a new one every M/W/F. There's an RSS feed (taken from the [http://www.livejournal.com/users/xkcd_drawings/info drawings journal]) ...s://web.archive.org/web/20060207154349/http://www.xkcd.com:80/ February 7, 2006]'' ''{{Quote|A webcomic of romance and math humor.<br>Updated three times a

| date = March 3, 2006 ...The supposed pain that came from such losing a long relationship came not from lamenting the loss of something he put so much effort into, but instead int

...probably a reference to ''{{w|Six-Word Memoirs}}'', a project launched in 2006 in which people "tell their life story in just six-words". ...8: Self-Description]] but also in [[:Category:Self-reference|several other comics]].

| date = February 15, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = February 17, 2006 ...guy and is rejected. Part of the element of the humor in this comic stems from a common assertion that the most homophobic of men are the most likely to b

| date = February 20, 2006 ...hree stars that appear close in the sky, but are in fact at great distance from each other. The Big Dipper is part of the constellation Ursa Major. It can

| date = November 10, 2006 ...second panel deconstructs the idea as Dr. Nash point out that staying away from the hot girl does not actually constitute a stable Nash equilibrium. The th

| date = April 21, 2006 :Hairy (thinking): I always hope that I'll find someone else quietly hiding from sleep, and we'll see each other and sit and talk.

...ixon or a Bush on the ticket). Just around the election he posted two more comics related to this: [[1130: Poll Watching]] and [[1131: Math]]. ...ach state gets at least one (the House also has non-voting representatives from non-state territories like {{w|Puerto Rico}} and the {{w|District of Columb

| date = July 28, 2006 | titletext = It's like they got together and said 'what do we miss most from the internet in 1998? that's right, embedded MIDI!'

| date = July 12, 2006 ...he is able to master {{w|Drifting (motorsport)|drifting}}. (Lines 4-8 are from the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8HQ2JLlc4E Tokyo Drift trailer].)

| date = September 6, 2006 ...-based algorithm are executed in reverse to obtain the original plain text from a cipher text.

| date = October 23, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = November 24, 2006 | titletext = And watch out for that guy from comic #53.

| date = July 7, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Black Hat]]

| date = February 22, 2006 ...y and taste good with ketchup!" This text is a modified version of a quote from {{w|J. R. R. Tolkien|Tolkien's}} {{w|The Fellowship of the Ring}}: "Do not

| date = July 19, 2006 ...e appeared in the episode, and all the dialogue attributed to her is taken from her character's actual dialogue.

| date = June 30, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]

| date = October 30, 2006 | titletext = Yet one more reason I'm barred from speaking at crypto conferences.

| date = October 11, 2006 ...tch Pokémon: fanciful wild creatures that come in many varieties, ranging from [https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Rhydon_(Pok%C3%A9mon) armoured din

| date = February 24, 2006 ...to wear fashions that were popular in the 1980s while playing dance music from the same period.

| date = March 10, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = March 15, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]

| date = September 8, 2006 ...s no competent reasoner would make an {{w|Argument from authority|argument from sexiness}}.

| date = December 1, 2006 ...ose an admittedly tiny proportion of the general population, could benefit from the logic of the language, making the benefits of Lojban mostly pointless t

...04 and 2006 elections, and the company changed its name to distance itself from this bad reputation.) ...lware-scanning "antivirus" software for systems that otherwise are closed. From a computer programming standpoint, having antivirus software on an electron

| date = June 28, 2006 [[Category:Comics with color]]

| date = July 24, 2006 The punchline of this comic is that just by naming bands from the game ''{{w|Guitar Hero}}'', you can sound pretty knowledgeable about mu

...ch-loved British comedy series ''{{w|That Mitchell and Webb Look}}'', in a 2006 John Finnemore sketch about a "MASSIVE YACHT!" giveway. Presumably Randall [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = June 26, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Randall Munroe]]

| date = March 31, 2006 :[A rainbow extends outward from the TV, with "ROYAL RAINBOW!" above it. Cueball raises his hands in victory

| date =November 13, 2006 ...red out that his {{w|Nerd|nerdiness}} as an adult comes (at least in part) from his mother's strange rules.

| date = March 20, 2006 ...on, these strips are now {{w|Ghostwriter|ghost written}} with little input from Davis and rarely explore the unconventional. The comic is challenging Davis

| date =September 29, 2006 ...e's decided to keep his mouth shut about the whole thing. He has withdrawn from the debate because it doesn't ''matter'' if he wins the debate or not — s

| date = August 4, 2006 ...issing the simpler days of youth, where everything was much more exciting. From this point, he explains that part of the deadening process is responding th

| date = July 17, 2006 ...tended to protect media encrypted with {{w|Digital rights management|DRM}} from being intercepted between the player and the display. Interestingly, howeve

| date = March 29, 2006 ...of the first square panel, but then the panel's frame starts warping away from being square and starts to form into tendrils that move toward him, then sl

| date = December 13, 2006 ...like Cueball (and his date) would not have had this reason to be prevented from fully enjoying the evening as originally anticipated.

| date = May 1, 2006 ...mpted, at one point, to send themselves via air mail, and have been banned from doing so again.

| date = October 6, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Beret Guy]]

| date = October 13, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = October 16, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = August 25, 2006 ...this comic, he named it "[[Blag]]". He has used that name in several other comics, such as [[181: Interblag]] and [[239: Blagofaire]]. Today, if someone visi

| date = December 27, 2006 * The comment from ''GunPistolMan'' claims that the video is fake due to the mistaken belief t

| date = August 2, 2006 ...st controversial comic written to that point (i.e. 2008): ''...beating out comics about cunnilingus, the Obama endorsement, and my making 4chan tiny on the m

| date = May 5, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = October 9, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = July 5, 2006 ...for decrypting DVDs. There was a significant effort to prevent this code from being distributed, which triggered the {{w|Streisand effect}}.

...does not require Facebook integration, so it is separated by a solid line from Facebook. The "Unethical Bay" refers to how these games tend to addict play ...re niche markets are located. Similar to how mountains tend to be isolated from mainland, niche social networks tend to be just that: niche, without much i

...ct the Earth at progressively greater magnification (going "deeper" down), from Earth's surface (the grass) to the interior of a single proton. ...xpansion of space|the universe has expanded}}, so the galaxies that formed from that spot where this background radiation was emitted 13.8 billion years ag

| date = August 23, 2006 ...usical's song "The Origin of Love." This song is based on a satirical idea from {{w|Symposium (Plato)#Aristophanes|Plato's ''Symposium''|}}, whereby every

| date = September 3, 2006 The comic starts with a {{w|genie}}, who, having been freed from a magical lamp, grants the owner three wishes; this isn't unusual, since th

| date = November 29, 2006 ...ne of the main protocols of the Internet. It is used to route data packets from one computer to another, using other computers or even complete networks in

| date = September 11, 2006 ...wonderful compilation of crazy AOL searches in their Weekend Web archives, 2006-08-13.

On frame 2925 the title text changed from "Wait for it." to "...", and one frame later to just "RUN.". At approximate * The comic garnered "obsessive" attention from viewers on xkcd's forum, with a discussion thread that exceeds [http://foru

| date = August 14, 2006 *[[145: Parody Week: Dinosaur Comics]]

This is one of the few comics that features Megan's name in the text. ...if they wished, kill them to get their money back. There is also criticism from the focus on illegal activities in comparison with traditional "heroic" rol

| date = October 4, 2006 ...e. He illustrates this by using the word "pwned," the past tense of "pwn" (from "own," as in to defeat completely): "The noob was pwned by the pro." In thi

| date = October 18, 2006 [[Category:Comics with color]]

| titletext = Mouse over words and things to see where they come from.<br><br><span style="color:grey">Different title text:</span> This comic we This was the fourth [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]]. This comic isn't a static ima

| date = December 18, 2006 ...rcus-like. Another possible joke is that the comic, unlike most other xkcd comics, is drawn with {{w|Perspective (graphical)|perspective}} as well as being a

...} and {{w|Richmond, California}}. The "Springfield Monorail" is fictional, from the animated series ''{{w|The Simpsons}}'' (see {{w|Marge vs. the Monorail} ...Toronto for example) and cities are often arranged in the wrong direction from one another:

| date = September 18, 2006 ...art. However, the third panel reveals the punchline: His confusion results from the likeness between his ex and her mother, next to whom he apparently wake

| date = November 8, 2006 ...re}}." The internet itself is sometimes called "The Tubes," a term derived from Senator {{w|Ted Stevens}}'s infamous statement "{{w|Series of Tubes}}." The

| date = December 8, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Megan‏‎]]

| date = October 20, 2006 ...aveling salesman problem}}, is referenced in the title text, as well as in comics [[287]] and [[399]].

| date = October 25, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = December 22, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Blondie]]

| date = November 17, 2006 ...ecifically what [[Randall]] had in mind while drawing this comic, as other comics also reference Wikipedia.

| date = November 20, 2006 The title text primarily expresses [[Randall]]'s distance from the console wars (he has never owned a game console before), but also indic

| date = December 6, 2006 The title text parodies a line from the song and links it with the incomprehension of Cueball's friend.

| date = August 15, 2006 *[[145: Parody Week: Dinosaur Comics]]

| date = August 18, 2006 | title = Parody Week: Dinosaur Comics

| date = October 27, 2006 :I wanted to get lost in the dark, park my car, listen to music, and sip from a warm drink as dawn broke around me, gradually revealing a landscape I'd n

| date = December 29, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = November 22, 2006 The computer with the egg-shaped profile looks like an iMac G3, sold from 1998 until 2003. It seems that rationalizing the familiar has made Cueball

| date = December 25, 2006 From ''[[xkcd: volume 0]]'':

| date = November 27, 2006 [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

| date = December 15, 2006 The title text alludes to a similar phenomenon, as two villain characters from the same Ninja Turtles show called {{w|Bebop and Rocksteady|"Bebop" and "Ro

...where the song is used disruptively, such as during a party. It started in 2006 and grew until peaking on April Fool's Day in 2008. Thus, at New Years Eve ...r her, but Black Hat could not have done so without the willing assistance from Rick!{{citation needed}}

| date = September 20, 2006 ...e a reference to the Penny Arcade strip [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/04/10/ "I Hope You Like Text."]

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8 ''guitar''] that went viral in 2006-2007, in which he performed a cover of "Canon Rock," a rock arrangement of [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

...://spaceweather.com/swpod2006/13sep06/Pollock1.jpg from 1807 to 1845.)] In 2006, the {{w|IAU}} created a formal definition for "planet"; Pluto didn't make [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]

...at them to others. Randall points out that if the assumed intelligent life from other star systems were listening to the things we said, then they would ju ...e. The other star systems are arranged roughly according to their distance from the sun, while their size corresponds to the size of the star compared with

...reeting the new souls sentenced to {{w|Hell}}, and recognizes an executive from {{w|Fujitsu|Fujitsu Ltd}} in the form of [[Hairbun]]. Mephistopheles accuse ...d it was weird that Sony did so well. When one strikes a deal with a devil from Hell, their affairs in life go great, but of course one has then sentenced

| date = December 11, 2006 On the map, all allocated {{w|IPv4}} address blocks (as of 2006) are shown using a fractal mapping. (The {{w|Hilbert curve}} is used: the p

| titletext = I'm waiting for the day when, if you tell someone 'I'm from the internet', instead of laughing they just ask 'oh, what part?' *A larger version of the image is available [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/online_communities.png here].

| date = August 17, 2006 *[[145: Parody Week: Dinosaur Comics]]

| date = August 16, 2006 *[[145: Parody Week: Dinosaur Comics]]

...ar expressions have been mentioned on xkcd in [[:Category:Regex|many other comics]]. ...nge Megan faced, the two sets are the subtitles of the (then-extant) films from the ''{{w|Star Wars}}'' and ''{{w|Star Trek}}'' franchises. Her regex must

...ess filled with angst-ridden thoughts than LiveJournal was, nor is it free from problems or controversies around other issues such as security or privacy. ...s no longer live today. The blog was updated parallel to the website up to 2006 whereupon the introduction of a new RSS feed and automated update tools for

| date = October 11, 2006 ...by misquoting riddles). That said, Randall could have simply picked those comics out of a hat to plug for his comic (which he also does explicitly), and the

Albert was the first, but far from the last male chess player to enter the Vera Menchik Club. No less than 19 ...porting) events. Magnus was ranked no. 1 on the chess world rank when both comics were released.

...ict of Columbia never enacted such legislation. Earlier repeal dates range from 1780 in Pennsylvania to 1887 in Ohio, though none were repealed between 188 :[A graph with the x-axis showing time in years from 1940 to some time after 2010 (presumably ca. 2014). The y-axis shows percen

*A larger version of the image can be found [http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/payloads_large.png here]. ...launch spacecraft are depicted horizontally, because these vehicles launch from a horizontal starting position and use forward momentum to facilitate their

...ion to the Super Bowl. See also [[1107: Sports Cheat Sheet]] and two other comics where he jokes with sport in general: [[904: Sports]] and [[1507: Metaball] ...the [[:Category:My Hobby|My Hobby]] trope characteristic of some ''xkcd'' comics: here, Randall references people who scornfully refer to popular sports suc

* The comic above is from the article "[https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.342.6154.58 The R ...then shows a timeline, featuring [[Cueball]], [[Megan]] and [[Ponytail]]. From 1880 to 1900 there are barely any books; at 1900 there are three books; thi

:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:LiveJournal comics|LiveJournal comics]].'' ...ion beneath the image, and many had comments by LiveJournal users. All the comics transferred to the new site had a title text, which was often along the sam

...sa-s-new-horizons-sees-more-detail-as-it-draws-closer-to-pluto NASA photos from 12 April to 12 May]). These images are similar to the second panel of the c ...nomical unit|Astronomical unit (AU)}} is the approximate distance of Earth from the Sun, or about 150 million kilometers.

..., thus breaking the typical Monday/Wednesday/Friday cycle for the [[xkcd]] comics. Also on this day he released the first ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]'' in ...s}} which are widely misunderstood as channels based on wrong translations from Italian to other languages.

...planet. Pluto was considered a planet for a long period of time until, in 2006, the {{w|International Astronomical Union}} (IAU) created a new definition ...|| Old || Waist-deep {{w|Cats}} || {{w|Waist Deep}} is an action film from 2006, and the {{w|Lolcat}} meme does not need explaining. The name may also simp

[[File:Manhattanhenge2 rotated+sharpened.jpg|thumb|right|Manhattanhenge in 2006]] ...ytail]] and [[Cueball]] walks in from the left to meet [[Megan]] who comes from the right. They are walking in between two trees while Ponytail tells Cueba

...ndall]] has used several times before, in an attempt at making [[:Category:Comics to make one feel old|people feel old]]. This is done by mentioning the ages ...nd the {{w|Wii}} is a Nintendo game console which was released in November 2006. If you were born in the early-to-mid nineties, these were probably cultura

...stem]'' and shows indirect evidence that such a planet may exist, inferred from an otherwise unlikely correlation between the unusual orbits of several {{w ...f less than 1&nbsp;mm to an {{w|astronomical unit}} (AU) on the Y-axis and from a distance of just 1&nbsp;cm up to thousands of AU on the X-axis.

...g to do with the question asked, or at least not with the expected answer. From White Hat's reply it is obvious that he has had conversations like this wit ...etire/ rumored retirement] of {{w|Peyton Manning}}, he cannot stop himself from including context in his reply again. White Hat probably wanted Cueball to

This was the seventh [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] released by [[Randall]]. The previous fools comic was [[1506: xkcloud]] from Wednesday April 1st 2015. The next [[1818:_Rayleigh_Scattering#No_April_Foo

...country borders and land forms. (Except in the Not a Political Map Branch (from "Can you see the familiar continents?" downwards), the comic applies to a p ...at gives years in the range 1948–1952, before I-25 was built, and coming from a question that fixed the year range to 1960–1961.

This is yet another comic designed to [[:Category:Comics to make one feel old|make people feel old]], following soon after the last ...rred to often]] in xkcd. Since this was aimed at people who knew the song (from 1987) and were online (mainly young adults in 2007), this entry should not

...http://web.archive.org/web/20060710090528/http://www.xkcd.com:80/ July 10, 2006], the design of the website changed dramatically to one very similar to the ...a clickable link to the front page. The image used in the logo of xkcd is from the first panel of [[77: Bored with the Internet]], showing only the charac

The '''[[Blag]]''' is Randall's personal blog about his projects, comics, and books. ==Comics==

...port|Denver}}). Other codes are somewhat intuitive, taking a letter or two from the nearby city name but adding an additional letter (e.g., LAX for {{w|Los ...port|Beijing Daxing}} (IATA: PKX). Both IATA codes are probably originated from Peking, alternate former spelling of the city's name. {{w|BAE Systems}} is

...upport. This comic shows a caricature of the kind of inbox that can result from this. The emails get more and more absurd as the list goes on. For example, ...r, the donation requested is less about the actual money - even if $5 each from several thousand voters can add up - but to get a donor to have their money

| number = 2006 ...s it sounds disturbingly like uncouth data harvesting, not too far removed from potential identity theft.

...xpansion}}. The expansion had been predicted to be slowing due to gravity from everything in the universe; instead, it was found to be accelerating since | 2006 || 2014 || 8

...he comics [[80: My Other Car]] and [[1033: Formal Logic]] that came out in 2006 and 2012 respectively.

...dings can involve astronomical amounts of data, so the raw, original, feed from a telescope may never be stored if it is too dense -- it is instead process ...system as being like {{w|Pinterest}}, where {{w|JavaScript}} prevents you from right-clicking on an image so that you could save it (or at least attempts

...rious]], which contains an early ''Mario Kart'' joke, was released in July 2006. The X axis is in years, going from 1980 to a little after 2020. Each decade is marked.

...vel, to Lake Titicaca, almost 4 km above sea level) and of rock descending from the solid interface down to the asthenosphere, as the sliver of liquid that Randall has mainly used a work by Conrad and Lithgow-Bertelloni from 2006 to estimate the thickness of the "ground", and he gives the reference to th

This is another [[:Category:Comics with red annotations|comic containing red annotations]] over a complex and ...al due to tidal drag (the same effect causing the Moon to slowly move away from the Earth). It is unknown whether Venus used to have moons that were destro

...lector's Edition|April Fools' comic]]) in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}. *This is the first [[:Category:Saturday comics|Saturday comic]] since 2006.

This comic is another in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}. ...eunion or anticipated parting from a social group (such as a school or job from which he left), where he hugged many people he otherwise would not have hug

{{List of comics}} This is a list of comics from 2001 to 2500.

...e space probes. The cause was not known until recently, when data from the 2006-2009 {{w|Cassini–Huygens}} probe could be analyzed in depth. This finding ...article refers to this as the "BSBIT model", a technical-sounding acronym from "Big Soccer Ball In There".

| titletext = It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core. ...has been covered before in [[473: Still Raw]] and referenced in other XKCD comics.

...s center, and is different for people in different locations. For example, from an outside viewpoint, the direction of "down" for people in {{w|Madrid}}, S ...of the kilogram was done in order to ''prevent'' the mass of the kilogram from changing in the future by attaching it to physical constants.) Nonetheless,

**The last post was only ten days from being a year old when it happened. *As opposed to the removed store link (from previous change) the link is still active: https://blog.xkcd.com/

:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Footer comics]].'' The footer comics are likely selected for representing the topics covered on [[xkcd]]. They a

...ividual puddles. There is no clear, definitional line at which a body goes from being a lake to a pond, for example. In addition, the size of small lakes w ...his one right, and someone with no knowledge could likely guess the answer from the titles alone. This might be mistaken for a silly trick question, as ''L