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		maxerickson on May 6, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tool Recreating the “Decrypting Text” Effect Seen ... Why is ~1 user doing it is the question. I guess there is a good chance they just prefer it.

rfreytag on May 6, 2016 [–]

Because when searching in 2017+ knowing the year of the article might be nice. With the Wayback Machine and its ilk around the Internet is not ephemeral.

ajanuary on May 6, 2016 | [–]

Most posts are contemporary, which means you can use the post date to figure out the year of the article without clogging up the list of titles with (2016)

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