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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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A {{w|Bulletin Board System}}, or BBS, is an online service based on microcomputers running appropriate software. They were the precursors to modern day online forums. | A {{w|Bulletin Board System}}, or BBS, is an online service based on microcomputers running appropriate software. They were the precursors to modern day online forums. | ||
− | + | The {{w|J. Craig Venter Institute}} (JCVI) is a non-profit genomics research institute founded by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D. in October 2006. Assuming the comic takes place when the comic was written, the girl on the right is at most 5 1/2 years old. | |
− | + | Objectively, the girl is just as bad as her conversational partner; simply being the most significant advancement in test tube babies in over two decades doesn't prove anything about your personal knowledge or experience. ''Subjectively'', however, her reputation alone is more than enough to stun and thus "defeat" anyone who actually understands her special heritage. | |
− | + | The title text is another common retort from "old timers" that they have been doing X since before the younger person was born. In this case, the girl was "on the Internet" before she was born, at least in the form of her parents' genetic information. | |
− | + | ==Transcript== | |
+ | :[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.'' | ||
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− | :[ | + | :[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. |
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− | :[ | + | :[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. |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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[[Category:Internet]] | [[Category:Internet]] |