Observed arrival · 2026-11-06
Hug A Data Center: The Internet’s Most Grateful Photos
A chronological scrapbook of people thanking data centers, presented through dated posts, photo captions, and familiar social-media metrics.
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- Readers of internet history and affectionate infrastructure jokes
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- Navigation divides the archive into “Staged,” “Organic,” and “Orbital” sections, alongside “Top Hugs” and a submission link.
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Entries are arranged by date and borrow the conventions of social platforms: handles, captions, reaction counts, comments, tags, and sharing links. The snippets move from a 2005 MapQuest thank-you to a 2009 county broadband ribbon cutting and a 2011 youth-group visit, turning reliance on infrastructure into a running scrapbook joke. The page also offers “Staged,” “Organic,” and “Orbital” views; the extract does not clarify how those categories are defined.
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