My first encounter with qbn
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I remember that day vividly. I was sitting in my house, waiting for the 17 separate emails of images of stuff on cats from two years ago forwarded by my aunt to our entire family. I thought I'd surf the World Wide Web for a few minutes to kill time. I browsed to Slashdot and vaguely recollect glancing at some story about DVDs and MPAA. I surfed to BoingBoing and found commenters from across the wide spectrum of Blogosphere decrying the attempts by the evil Hollywood conglomerates to thwart digital freedom. I wasn't sure what to make of it all but frankly, it was early in the morning and my mind wasn't ready to comprehend such chaotic conflagrations of copyright constraints.
There was only one place where I could go to cleanse my mind. I hit Alt+D in my browser and typed qbn.com. What my eyes glanced upon next can only be described as shock and despair. Staring back at me, perched in the #1 spot on the qbn homepage was a string of hexadecimal characters that to this day manages to send shivers down my spine - 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0. I knew our Eternal September was here and nothing would be the same again.
Initially, the refugees appeared eager to assimilate and adapt. Our people were shocked at how they were treated back from whence they came and we welcomed them all with open arms. They joined us and cheered for us and our open-mindedness. Nevertheless, some of us voiced concerns about such a huge wave of instantaneous immigration and its repercussions but the populace would not tolerate such hatred and bigotry. I was courteous but anxious, considerate but apprehensive. I went back and forth between qbn and many other sites throughout the day to try to make sense of this whole mess. I went to bed late at night but could not fall asleep. My mind was stuck in a loop saying 09 F9... 09 F9... 09 F9...
I woke up and for a brief moment, forgot about what had transpired the day before. I looked around in my bedroom and everything seemed normal but my heart just felt heavier. I wasn't sure what the eerie feeling was all about and decided to check qbn to get my daily dose of morning freshness. Alt+D, qbn.com and thump! My heart sank to the bottom of my stomach, my lungs collapsed, my fingers went numb. At #1 spot on qbn.com were the same 17 images of stuff on cats from from two years ago that were now being forwarded by aunts, uncles, and grandparents all over the world to their families. The assimilation was finally complete and my people had been outnumbered. So yes, I remember that day of invitation. Vividly.
- smee0
ok, how do i logout?
- visionary0
what's this thread about?
- acescence0
yeah, it's rough coming down off your meds.
- ukit0
- airey0
and tho, jesus said to him, "fuck off".
- moldero0
♪ newstoday ♪
- Stugoo0
~
- zaq0
Looked at my kingdom I was finally there, to sit on my throne as the prince of Bel-Air.
- JerseyRaindog0
tlps
