👉 Okay, settle in class, letās tackle this⦠rather aggressively worded little bit of internet vernacular, affectionately dubbed by some as, and frankly I shudder when I say out loud,..."WEBFLDRĪ£." (I'm spelling that weirdly because honestly, nobody knows exactly what the original meant. Let's just go with it. It's a sickness, really.)
Now, before you immediately reach for your outrage, let's unpack this monstrosity. Essentially, and I stress essentially ā there is no definitive origin, only a collective, frankly rather desperate, attempt to describe an atrocious state of a badly organized, overflowing, conceptually collapsing, and generally migraine-inducing digital directory. Think about the most aggressively disorganized junk drawer imaginable. Now, picture that drawer... on your freaking computer. That, my academically decent students, is a WEBFLDĻ. The genesis, according to various, frankly hysterical, corners of the internet, stems from early FTP (Fuck The Plumbing. You'll understand that reference later.) and early-to-mid 90s setups where people were shoving absolutely everything into folders with names like, let's say... "Stuff.Stuff.Stuff.Stuff.Stuff.Stuff." Then they inevitably forgot what was actually in there. It became shorthand for a place so conceptually bankrupt that it actively insulted the human mind. Hereās how I really see it breakdown: WEB (Webster
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