Editing Talk:1058: Old-Timers

Wouldn't the heat from the servers have thawed the egg and killed her early? '''[[User:Davidy22|<span title="I want you."><u><font color="purple" size="2px">David</font><font color="green" size="3px">y</font></u><sup><font color="indigo" size="1px">22</font></sup></span>]]'''[[User talk:Davidy22|<tt>[talk]</tt>]] 13:44, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
* What? That... ''What''? The egg isn't actually sent through the internet, if that's what you mean. The information from the parents' genes was taken from their proteins, encoded in digital format on the computer at the lab, sent to another lab, then re-encoded into protein format to be implanted in an egg. In that context, the egg was an entirely separate part of the process. If you mean the egg would have been thawed by the people at the Venter institute holding the egg up next to the servers, unprotected, while they implanted the synthesized genome (or the people at the lab doing the same thing with the unfertilized egg while sequencing the DNA), that's... well, simply not how that works. As for "killed her early": I'm not sure of a good way to ''start'' asking what you mean by that. As opposed to killing her at the intended time? As opposed to killing the unfertilized egg before they could sequence the DNA? Or even killing the physical egg while it was somehow being transported via the internet? [[User:JET73L|JET73L]] ([[User talk:JET73L|talk]]) 11:07, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
**Sincerely, Summer Glau {{unsigned|Wotpsycho}}
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To me the title text seems to be referencing something completely different, as it seems to be coming from Neckbeard, to Buns, saying that he was on the internet before he was born as well, possibly in the form of pornography while his mother was pregnant.  Just my idea.  [[User:Tyman2651|Tyman2651]] ([[User talk:Tyman2651|talk]]) 20:43, 12 May 2013 (UTC)

:I was thinking along those lines, except maybe the conception was on the Internet. lol [[Special:Contributions/173.245.63.180|173.245.63.180]] 21:26, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
::The title text is clearly from Buns' perspective. [[User:Tharkon|Tharkon]] ([[User talk:Tharkon|talk]]) 20:39, 25 July 2014 (UTC)

I cringe when I see her sit like that. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.238.161|108.162.238.161]] 16:44, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

:I sit like that. I'll hazard that odd personalities go with odd sittings. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.38.120|172.68.38.120]] 02:35, 26 July 2020 (UTC)

:: I thought it was just emphasizing her lack of height [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.164|162.158.255.164]] 16:32, 12 December 2020 (UTC)

Another important part of the joke is that BBSes have nothing to do with the Internet.  While there were some that morphed into ISPs, e.g. Prodigy and AOL, mostly they were self contained and reached peak popularity after the modern internet was created.  --[[User:Rhmcoff|Rhmcoff]] ([[User talk:Rhmcoff|talk]]) 04:25, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
   
   Actually not true that BBS had nothing to do with the internet, as many were on networks that had connections to email servers to send and 
   receive email from any domain, like today. When I was assisting running a system I sent and received such emails regualrry though my own 
   email address was a long cluster of text since it was used to direct the email to right BBS on the network on this side of gateway. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.231|162.158.62.231]] 13:21, 29 August 2017 (UTC)