It started life as a little Atari ST C++ command line fortune cookie application in 1993 for floppy disk boot up - a
poor mans version of the Unix fortune. It was then used for playing around with C#/.NET web services in 2001 and sat for
years until it eventually died as the web site faded away. Now it re-merges as an .NET Core REST solution, hosted on Azure,
again existing only to play around with some newer tech.
This service is also now hooked up to a little Twitter bot (@FortuneDogsay)
with an Azure LogicApp creating a new image daily (using SkiaSharp).
Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of
truth in all its forms, but there comes a point I'm afraid where you begin to
suspect that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly
being run by a bunch of maniacs. And if it comes to a choice between spending yet
another ten million years finding that out, and on the other hand just taking
he money and running, then I for one could do with the exercise.
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy