# Tell us an interesting random fact you stumbled across (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 13, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674 "2020-04-13T03:19:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4509
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2022, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674/4509 "2022-05-28T12:29:42Z")
> [@Askance](#): > > OTOH they might improve the performance of the SDMB servers … My God, those were the days, weren’t they? I even pitted this Boards servers back in 2002, a year before you joined: > [@To the poor, overworked 486-33MhZ that powers the SDMB...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-poor-overworked-486-33mhz-that-powers-the-sdmb/107726): > > I feel your pain. I really do. It must be hard to do so many page views, replies, and changes to the SDMB, all while making the effort of trying to stay online. Your poor little 10 year old CPU has so much to do that I understand why it takes so long for me to get a page view, why my posts keep disappearing in a “This page cannot load” screen from IE, why I just can’t logon sometimes regardless of whether I’m using cable, DSL, or a plain old dial-up. Oh, sometimes you’re fine. Like right now, I… Looking at the thread, the very last post has @MannyL inventing the cloud, so he has that going for him, which is cool. But then he envisioned it as a not-for-profit service which, lol, this is America: > [@To the poor, overworked 486-33MhZ that powers the SDMB...](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/to-the-poor-overworked-486-33mhz-that-powers-the-sdmb/107726/23): > > I don’t see why the server that The Straight Dope is on has to be owned by the Chicago Reader. If one was dreaming the following scenerio could work Chicago Reader pays for an internet connection but is not attached to anything Chicago Reader leases said internet connection to a not for profit group called anything. Part of the lease agreement calls for a payment fo $1.00 a year to be made to the Chicago Reader. This Not For Profit group attaches one or more servers to the internet conn… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-us-an-interesting-random-fact-you-stumbled-across-part-1/851674)._