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by Jugurtha 3279 days ago
A variety of factors, I think:

- The creator (((pg)). I bet the imbalanced parentheses gave him a stroke even if he didn't read this. Voodoo stuff.

- The audience (who they are, what they come here for, all the site is not that makes them return): mostly people who are accustomed to text as a medium of communication (code, docs, books, articles, papers) and might prefer it to other media.

You might like http://textfiles.com/