A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
Special 10th anniversary edition of WHAT IF?—revised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to important questions you never thought to ask—coming from November 2024. Preorder here!
When a network tries to be everyone's one-stop hub, the Walmart of social interaction...
[[Two figures stand in a department store. One is holding some items in their right arm and waving at the other, who is pushing a shopping cart.]]
Figure 1: Oh, uh, hi! Funny running into you here.
Figure 2: Oh, hey! Yeah! How've you been?
...it inevitably becomes the Walmart of social interaction.
{{Title text: What I really want is to hang out where I hung out with my friends in college, but have all my older relatives there too.}}
xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 3±1 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS at a screen resolution of 1024x1. Please enable your ad blockers, disable high-heat drying, and remove your device from Airplane Mode and set it to Boat Mode. For security reasons, please leave caps lock on while browsing.