My great great grandfather had a friend, Ebenezer, who was apparently visited by a bunch of Christmas ghosts. And he was never quite the same after that. He sort of lost his competitive edge.

But tons of illegitimate use cases.

I’d assumed you were a bot who would just follow me back and help me juice my follower count.

But remember the decade before that when Google employees claimed the unofficial motto “Don’t be evil”? That ethos was real.

Perhaps predictably, my memories from Latin class include 1) a bit of actual Latin, and 2) almost everything that ever came up about the Roman Empire. There’s a weirdly high retention rate on that second one. But memories any homework that was presumably done has been forgotten.