"And all the girlies say I'm pretty fly for a white guy." -The OffspringAdmit it. You do it. You're in a bad mood, so you add to your away message some lyrics from a depressing song or type in some cryptic poetry.
What's in a Game? As I write this, the Boston Red Sox have just lost Game 7 of the American League Championship and I can already hear shouts of "Yankees Suck" coming from outside my window.
Welcome freshm-en ... err ... first years. By this time - although you're still getting settled in and adjusting to dorm life - you may be enjoying your ultra-fast Ethernet Internet connection.
On April Fool's Day, many students were shocked upon visiting http://boogle.agblog.com Instead of the usual Boogle search interface, they were greeted with a well-spoofed message purportedly from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The notice claimed that Boogle was being shut down because it allows students to illegally trade copyrighted material, and every student taking advantage of this service would be charged a fee for each illegally owned movie or song.The joke terrified many students, prompting an MP3 pirate panic as they madly scrambled to delete all of their offending files.
It happens every semester, usually around midterms and finals. Some poor student will walk into the UNet office offering to sell his first-born child if I can just recover his 10-page paper from a floppy disk.
Over the winter break, my brother Ben and I did a lot of Internet surfing together. We would read the news, look at online comics, or peruse our favorite gaming sites.
Do you remember when the Internet was young? When it was pure and crisp, like freshly fallen snow?
Think back to 1994. You're in junior high. Remember that one kid, who always spent lunchtime in the library programming games onto his calculator?
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