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:Megan (on top of stack of files): You OK down there?
 
:Megan (on top of stack of files): You OK down there?
:Cueball (deep inside stack): Oh my god. I wrote poetry.
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:Cueball (deep inside stack): Oh my god. I wrote '''POETRY'''.

Revision as of 07:31, 25 April 2014

Old Files
Wow, ANIMORPHS-NOVEL.RTF? Just gonna, uh, go through and delete that from all my archives real quick.
Title text: Wow, ANIMORPHS-NOVEL.RTF? Just gonna, uh, go through and delete that from all my archives real quick.

Explanation

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Cueball is sifting through a pile of old files, either a theoretical one that exists on a hard drive, making fun of how hard it is to search through old files, or a real room of old hard drives. He discovers several files he is embarrassed about, including a poetry file that surprises him, since he does not remember writing poetry, and an "Animorphs Novel" mentioned in the title text, most likely a fan fiction of the Animorphs series, although possibly a copy of one of the original books.

This comic came out the day after Sky News published the story of original Andy Warhol artwork, created in 1985 on an Amiga 1000, was recovered from recently found floppy disks.

Files

  • Angband is a rogue-like computer game.
  • Kazaa is an internet file sharing service.
  • QBasic is an IDE and intepreter for a dialect of the BASIC programming language, originally bundled with MS-DOS 5.0 and newer, and Gorilla.bas is one of the games that came with QBasic.
  • ICQ is an early (1996) instant messenger client.
  • Elasto Maina is a 2D motorbike computer game

Transcript

Megan (on top of stack of files): You OK down there?
Cueball (deep inside stack): Oh my god. I wrote POETRY.