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[[A man with a neck beard types away at his computer screen.]]
Neckbeard: (typing) Whatever, noob. I've been on the internet since the BBS days.
Screen:
Wrong.
<<type type>>
[[A girl with buns on her head kneels on her chair, typing at a laptop on a table.]]
Buns: (typing) Before I was born, a lab took egg and sperm samples from my parents and sequenced the DNA.
<<type type>>
[[Neckbeard sits at his desk, reading his screen.]]
Buns: (from the screen) They emailed the genome to the Venter Institute, where they synthesized the genome and implanted it into sperm and eggs which became me.
[[Buns still typing on the laptop.]]
Buns: So, no. - You've
looked
at the internet. - I've
been
there.
<<type type>>
{{Title text: You were on the internet before I was born? Well, so was I.}}
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