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May Day Books [2009] (maydaybookstore.org)
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There's been a few minor updates, but it's largely unchanged since 2009. If you want to see a horror show, view page source for a taste of how bad web dev used to be. Bunch of autogenerated garbage from Microsoft Publisher 11 like this:

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MS Publisher also screwed up the title into this 🤦:

MayDay� Books

Modern web dev has its downsides but it's still streets ahead of when it was under the iron grip of Microsoft (or M$ as you used to say back in the day if you were cool on /.)

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