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).
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and
recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the
How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question
'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question
'Where shall we have lunch?
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe