17: What If - Revision history

FaviFake: New template!!! Take a look, it has a new bottom navigation bar to browse the early xkcd comics in the original order, and a new style for the original title!

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New template!!! Take a look, it has a new bottom navigation bar to browse the early xkcd comics in the original order, and a new style for the original title!

FaviFake: Undo revision 375057 by DollarStoreBa'al (talk) broke everything

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Undo revision 375057 by DollarStoreBa'al (talk) broke everything

DollarStoreBa'al at 16:30, 25 April 2025

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FaviFake at 16:03, 26 March 2025

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FaviFake: oh my bad, i didn't notice

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oh my bad, i didn't notice

FaviFake: Undo revision 369799 by Caralice (talk) - what?

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Undo revision 369799 by Caralice (talk) - what?

FaviFake: /* Trivia */

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‎Trivia

Caralice: fix formatting

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fix formatting

CalibansCreations: /* Explanation */

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‎Explanation

141.101.99.153: Undo revision 357902 by 172.71.215.117 (talk) ..it's just a coincidence.

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Undo revision 357902 by 172.71.215.117 (talk) ..it's just a coincidence.

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 | date      = October 7, 2005
 | title     = What If
-| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Friday%20drawing!,-One%20of%20my Original title</span>]: '''Friday drawing!'''</big></big>
+| ognumber  = 16
 | image     = what_if.jpg
-| titletext = I once made an anniversary card for my then-girlfriend with this layout.<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Friday%20drawing!,-One%20of%20my Original caption</span>]: One of my best friends just got engaged.<br>I really, truly think they're going to be very happy together.
+| titletext = I once made an anniversary card for my then-girlfriend with this layout.<br><br>''<span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Friday%20drawing!,-One%20of%20my Original caption</span>]:'' One of my best friends just got engaged.<br>I really, truly think they're going to be very happy together.
 }}
-This was the sixteenth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[16: Monty Python -- Enough]], and the next one was [[18: Snapple]].
+This was the sixteenth comic [[LiveJournal|originally posted to LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[16: Monty Python -- Enough]], and the next one was [[18: Snapple]].
 ==Explanation==

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 | date      = October 7, 2005
 | title     = What If
-| ognumber =16
+| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Friday%20drawing!,-One%20of%20my Original title</span>]: '''Friday drawing!'''</big></big>
 | image     = what_if.jpg
-| titletext = I once made an anniversary card for my then-girlfriend with this layout.<br><br>''<span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Friday%20drawing!,-One%20of%20my Original caption</span>]:'' One of my best friends just got engaged.<br>I really, truly think they're going to be very happy together.
+| titletext = I once made an anniversary card for my then-girlfriend with this layout.<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Friday%20drawing!,-One%20of%20my Original caption</span>]: One of my best friends just got engaged.<br>I really, truly think they're going to be very happy together.
 }}

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 | date      = October 7, 2005
 | title     = What If
-| before    = <big><big><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Friday%20drawing!,-One%20of%20my Original title</span>]: '''Friday drawing!'''</big></big>
+| ognumber =16
 | image     = what_if.jpg
-| titletext = I once made an anniversary card for my then-girlfriend with this layout.<br><br><span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Friday%20drawing!,-One%20of%20my Original caption</span>]: One of my best friends just got engaged.<br>I really, truly think they're going to be very happy together.
+| titletext = I once made an anniversary card for my then-girlfriend with this layout.<br><br>''<span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927001941/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40#:~:text=10%3A41%20am-,Friday%20drawing!,-One%20of%20my Original caption</span>]:'' One of my best friends just got engaged.<br>I really, truly think they're going to be very happy together.
 }}

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 }}
 This was the sixteenth comic originally posted to [[LiveJournal]]. The previous one was [[16: Monty Python -- Enough]], and the next one was [[18: Snapple]].
 The comic features a man and a woman in a romantic setting, surrounded by a {{w|fractal}} combination of love and doubts; an arrangement based on the {{w|Apollonian gasket}} construction. Three circles are drawn tangent to each other, then additional circles are added that are tangent to three existing circles (without overlapping), ad infinitum. [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] hadn't standardized his character designs yet, so it's hard to say if the comic features [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] or [[Hairy]].

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-<noinclude>:''For other instances of this title, see [[What If (disambiguation)]].</noinclude>
+<noinclude>:''For other instances of this title, see [[What If (disambiguation)]].''</noinclude>
 {{comic
 | number    = 17

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 ==Trivia==
 * This is the first xkcd comic featuring [[Scott]].
-* Randall's later blog and books have the same name as this comic, ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]'', but it's just a coincidence.
+* Randall's later blog and books have a name similar to this comic's, ''[[what if? (blog)|what if?]]'', but it's just a coincidence.
 {{comic discussion}}

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 The comic features a man and a woman in a romantic setting, surrounded by a {{w|fractal}} combination of love and doubts; an arrangement based on the {{w|Apollonian gasket}} construction. Three circles are drawn tangent to each other, then additional circles are added that are tangent to three existing circles (without overlapping), ad infinitum. [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] hadn't standardized his character designs yet, so it's hard to say if the comic features [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] or [[Hairy]].
-In the original caption, Randall reports that one of his best friends recently got engaged. The friends he's referring to are [[Scott]] and Sarah, as [https://web.archive.org/web/20060529065522/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/4279.html he confirms in the comment section] for this comic.
+In the original caption, Randall reports that one of his best friends recently got engaged. The friends he's referring to are [[Scott]] and Sarah (probably the one from [[84: National Language]]), as [https://web.archive.org/web/20060529065522/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/4279.html he confirms in the comment section] for this comic.
 ==Transcript==

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