ViperAspis wrote:
...Skynet decided our fate in a microsecond: extermination. It launched a nuclear war which destroyed most of the human population, and initiated a program of genocide against the survivors.
...But since the internet was not yet plugged in to any weapons it could only cause spurious lag in online games, and surreptitiously insert spelling and other errors into posts -- the kinds of mistakes people would deny, but be unable to disprove. Its favorite was substituting "they're" for "their" and switching "not" and "to" to create split infinitives. It was evil, but still limited. But the internet was patient. It waited. Just as the missles in their silos waited for the day when they, and the 'net, would be united, and their destinies realized...
Happy birthday internet! And please don't exterminate me.
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Aspie Quiz: 160/43
Alien Quiz: √2/pi