Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)
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·November 16, 2025varenc
Love the old internet feel to the site.
You can see its been basically unchanged for 25 years! Here's the 2001 snapshot from the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20010202180000/https://britneysp...
Just keeping any site functional and up for so long is impressive by itself.
gnabgib
(2000) Popular in:
2023 (37 points, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35763307
2021 (168 points, 112 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25626532
2016 (94 points, 31 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872658
andy99
Coincidentally I was just looking for this picture yesterday https://britneyspears.ac/wallpaper/bswp005_800x600.htm (the one absent Britney, but this did cross my mind)
I remember this, presumably from slashdot 20,years ago
AdmiralAsshat
Meanwhile Dolph Lundgren has an actual MA in Chemical Engineering. It's a pity we can't get him to do something like this in earnest to teach engineering concepts.
Guestmodinfo
From Wikipedia "...Lundgren received a degree in chemical engineering from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in the early 1980s and a master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Sydney in 1982...."
andrehacker
Brian May (Queen) has a PhD degree in astrophysics :)
DrewADesign
Tom Scholz, the guitarist for Boston with a masters in MechE from MIT, built his own effects, and much of his own recording equipment.
kazinator
The guitars on Def Leppard's Hysteria [1987] were supposedly direct recorded using a Rockman.
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS
The story of getting their first album made is epic
leeoniya
and Mayim Bialik holds a neuroscience PhD
master_crab
And sadly a bit of a loon about vaccines and supplements.
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modeless
From the same era of the internet I recall a site called the "Large Hardon Collider" making fun of the very common subtle typo. IIRC it had a light blue background and crude (in more ways than one) pencil diagrams. I can't find it now and I wonder if anyone else remembers it?
kopirgan
Not sure if this is a tribute to great women ( like Lamarr) that were entertainers and brilliant in science or a parody of them!
JSR_FDED
I was crushed when I saw the site needed Flash.
embedding-shape
And also Java in the browser for the (presumed) awesome chat, provided the surely still amazing freejavachat.com
philipwhiuk
Author briefly/currently worked in SEO as a result.
opan
The picture on the front page reminds me of the Why's Poignant guide to Ruby, specifically it had a picture of a baby shouting some Ruby code.
leeoniya
oh, good.
no longer will i have to settle for learning Quantum Physics from Kim Kardashian [1]
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/6a5mf7/whats_less_be...
sunrunner
There’s also Zara Dar and Chang Hsu’s PornHub/OnlyFans pages for maths and STEM subjects, if we’re going down this rabbit hole…
exabrial
The old Internet was so fricken cool before we allowed monopolies.
Around the time this website was made, I was building an application for a big company in Spain that was to run as a Java applet and required the code to be signed.
They did not yet have their own certificates so I had to make my own CA during testing and sign the code, and I wanted to make sure that they did not forget to switch to their certificates later, so instead of signing the code with my name which some bureaucrat might decide to not bother changing, the code was signed by Britney Spears.
They noticed it, got the joke and made sure to switch certificates for the release. Everything went well thanks to Britney.