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While I had some already drawn comics made, the first time I uploaded a comic and the site went live was four years ago, to the day.
http://www.bartenerds.com/archive/10-12-2012.html
The site has had more traffic this year than the first three years combined x4 and you guys have been a big part of that. Thank you for everything!
Here's to another 100. Preferably spread over a much shorter time frame this time around.
imjeremiad
Pick one. Be consistent. Don't be condescending to others. Easy.
Marni42
Congrats.
Treblaine
I have literally never heard of this in my entire life and I am an eternally cursed Mummy from 3000BC.
froggiej
I didn't think you had to double space sentences until COLLEGE where a prof. would take off points if you didn't. psht, waste of space.
SusieSoups
I double space when I need to make an essay longer and I'm out of stuff to write. Plus playing with margins and punctuation size.
snailaway
Am I the only one who have never heard of this? Double-spacing, wtf?
SingleNiceFedoraWearingClassyGuycautiondonotfriendzone
I hate that. It is a waste of space.
ghoozer
I never knew this was a thing! I work as a translator and seeing double-spacing always made me irrationally angry and I correct. ._.
eelero
My mom taught me to double space after sentences but then I learned in English class not to.
MakeItBackAlright
Double spacing is such a pet peeve of mine. Is this really a thing people do intentionally?
ButtholeMarsBarDispenser
I always advise keeping double space away from me during and aftery period.
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
This is the story of my life. I am now a recovering double-spacer.
AllTheGoodOnesWereGone
Mostly because double-spacing annoys the FUCK out of certain people and life is too short to deal with the drama.
repostmodern
Plz, do not stop double spacing.
InboxMeYourHDGIFs
I never did double-space, nor was I ever taught to.
repostmodern
I´m sorry they failed you.
Goronhead
I didn't know double spacing was still a thing.
michaeldem
I will continue to double-space my sentences until the day I die. Always.
TheBlueMuppet
FYI, HTML4 automatically removes double spaces so if you put them in, no one will ever see them. No idea about HTML5.
EdDeNtEr
Same
ZombieDK
As someone who writes thousands of words a week, I never ever double space after a period.
Snooj
You're not alone. I had this conversation with a friend of mine several months ago. I was the guy at the bar, though, and he was the idiot.
TenchuTheWolf
Just another thing to add to the list of reasons why I'm a fucking savage. Had a teacher in college who wanted two spaces and I was like NOP
TenchuTheWolf
You'll never see that other E because of the CHARACTER LIMIT. Muahahahuahhaa
LtDWolf
But it seem you just gave us the other E right there. So haHA!
thestsp
I love that you still double spaced in the Imgur description here, right after "Here's to another 100."
laplance93
I wrote a technical document with a guy in school. 30 pages later and and hour of editing I removed all those damn spaces.
SoThenThisAssholeSaid
Law school was militant about double spacing. I can never break that habit now.
PlantyThePlant
I double space after periods when writing reports just because it makes it easier to skim through when all the sentences are separated by em
moxymox
As someone who knows what a period looks like, I've never remotely had a problem skimming documents that don't use two spaces.
melwing
Good for you, cupcake!
IHateyouIfyouremoreattractivethanme
Tip some professors and teachers may appreciate double spacing as it is easier to skim through and leave comments.
DrAnimalWelfareScientist
Meh. Lots of grading, including comments, is done online now and manuscripts are edited directly in word processing programs.
wolfrenegade
Also automatically puts a period down, when you double space in word
TorontoJones
Yessssss
slightlybored
Not sure if 'em' is short for 'them', or that a double space is called an em space
PlantyThePlant
Short for them. I've got a 140 character limit m8, have to make-do sometimes.
literallymike
My whole life has been a lie. I have always and will continue to use 2 spaces after a period.
Moonhoof
You... already posted this one though?
BarteNERDS
I did yesterday, but I wasn't sure whether to upload it as three separate images or one big one and took it down until I decided.
Moonhoof
Fair enough.
BarteNERDS
Yeah, I was trying to get a YouTube animation done for the 4 year anniversary, but I doubt I'll finish today, so this works to celebrate it.
Moonhoof
Celebrate away :)
ChicksDigTrucks
I double-space after periods.
Sauroctonus
Why would you use two spaces?
PileOfWalthers
Because your teacher got his degree at some podunk community college 50 years ago, when typewriters were still a thing.
Neorago
I, too, am confused about this. I was never taught to do that and never knew it was a thing until today.
justyourfriendlyneighborhoodimgurian
From what I remember, college was all about MLA format. Guidelines you used when writing a paper. At the time, it said two spaces.
justyourfriendlyneighborhoodimgurian
It now says either one or two, as long as you are consistent with your choice.
AMartianPotato
Because a teacher in elementary school taught me to and now it's just habit.
Banjostory
Why capitalize proper nouns? It's just the way it is.
djbrazzy
Because "look at that, Dick" and "look at that, dick", have different meanings.
samwyze
That depends on how much of a jerk Richard is.
echomur
The first space is to differentiate sentences. The second is for that sweeeeet spacing sensation.
BarteNERDS
That sensation is that smug grammatical superiority. Where, in your head you're like, "Ahh. You're so much better than the rest of them."
Esc7
It's for the mono spaced font of typewriters to help aesthetically breakup the sentences. Proportional width fonts don't need it.
Karilyn
Even in proportional width fonts I think it generally is more aesthetic. It helps make the break between sentences cleaner feeling.
Esc7
That's your opinion, but every professional typographer disagrees. It's still hard wired into me but look at any professional piece of text.
whitewingdevil
This guy. This guy right here has the knowledge for ya.
EvilBrainAngelHeart
If it helps, I double-space after periods, too.
globalstorm
And i gave her double space after her period, if you know what i mean? Huh? ...
nilmm
I double space when using markdown.
DonaldTrumpsFlaccidHairpiece
Same here! Its just how we learned :|
stusureno
It's*
DonaldTrumpsFlaccidHairpiece
I upvoted for the sassy-ness :D
Squeezit
I even double space after periods on imgur... Except when I go back to edit my post because I ran out of space.
badgersnuffles
I know it's wrong these days, but I much prefer the look of the double space. The single feels rushed.
snowman520182
As do I
alceriniel
Yeah it's weird having to do it for only a few days out of the month. But whatevs.
ThatOneGuy87
I double space also.
laboon
i do it on my phone because it automatically turns the first one into a period. then there is just a single space after. as it should be.
Datdudez
Well, this isn't Vietnam. There are rules.
BurpMacklinFBI
I ctrl+F ". " and change to ". " after I'm done w a paper cause ain't nobody got time. Whoopsies.
3vieTheEevee
I do this in essays. Anything to help push the page requirement
Lvlypnutshel
Helpful tip...make all the periods a couple font sizes larger as well
MrSkar
Some prof's use a program that checks font size across the paper. There's nothing that catches spaces yet, as far as I know.
3vieTheEevee
I do that as well, all punctuation though to make it uniform
xSquirrelly
Wait, am I not supposed to double space? I don't on here because of the character count, but everywhere else. Was it all a lie?!
WriteStuff
No, it's not. It is still used in academia.
AstartesLibrarius
Depends. Are you typing an Essay that needs to be so many pages long? If the answer is yes, then use the hell out of it.
flamingflamingo
If you do on here, it will actually delete one of them.
GodHelpMeToBeGood
Back in high school we had a typing class (what is that?!) and we were told to always double space. So there.
CeruleanK
It was useful for typing in monospace. But in print, look at any book or newspaper, they never did it. Then html deleted all extra spaces.
padgie
Growing up I was taught 2 spaces. Typing & English classes taught me to use 2 spaces. Now you only need 1. I still use 2 when I can.
WriteStuff
Me too
icyvaynes
Well reports for school or work yeah. Easy to read. However, its not necessary for everything.
vauhtihirmu
I've never been taught to double space in my life. But then again, maybe people in Finland never did it.
icyvaynes
I know its half ass taught in the U.S..
ActuallyALinguist
The standards are changing because it's no longer relevant; kind of like how Y replaced Þ when it became outdated in English typography.
leperoutcastunclean
It didn't become outdated, it became inconvenient.
TurduckenMcNugget
Wouldn't that be orthography instead of typography?
ActuallyALinguist
Good question. Think of orthography as the science and typography as the art. It is both orthographic and typographic, but character limits.
septillion
*orÞography