Lawrence, how I could count the ways.
by karl
For awhile now I have been trying to figure out how to tell my story. After one night of drinking peach schnapps I recalled that I invented the internet. Of course I let my good secret friend Lawrence G. Roberts take the credit. I recall the conversation like it was last week, primarily because it was about a week ago. After a long afternoon of browsing the newspaper classified ads, I decided to go back in time and get the ball rolling on the whole spacespace- I mean internet.
It was 1966; I met Lawrence after he was walking out of the Lincoln Laboratory. He had the sort of smug smile that only a man in computer science would have, if I swinged that way I may have fell in love with him then. We got to talking about the civil rights movement, in which it was decided we should continue this conversation at a nearby bar.
Right off the bat you could tell Lawrence was an extremely bright man- the perfect candidate to design the internet. This of course would need to be dealt with afterward, first we drank. Like most men at this time- he could handle himself quite beautifully with whiskey. We discussed the possibilities of him leaving with one of the cute girls at the end of the bar. He liked them small- she was about 5’1, probably taller, my head was resting on the bar at the time.
I was awakened by Lawrence, stating he was going to leave with the cute girl. They stated something about somewhere. I found my out of the bar moments later to discover them across the street with other MIT students. I wonder my way there and was greeted by Lawrence as if we were old friends. This warmed my heart, that or the scotch did.
While the party calmed down, I found myself alone at a kitchen table with Lawrence. He lost his glasses; this made him look young and handsome. I discussed with him the work of Licklider – how a network similar to this was possible. I began to draw this on his arm, every detail painfully scraped across his flesh. This is the moment the internet came to be- on the arm of a brilliant man. After this exchange Lawrence mentioned he should probably get to bed, I shook his hand and wished him a wonderful life.
I finished off the night and returned to 2011 to discover I had several advanced computers in my house that could browse and view web pages within seconds. I was delighted of this, even more so when I found the large amount of nude pictures you could find on such a device. As you wade through this treasure trove of naked men and women, I hope you stopped at this site and discovered how the internet was truly invented. I shall update this site with my continued stories through-out time.
-Karl
Genius!
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