Jun 19
Good Show Sir Comments: I believe I have discovered a way to use this “dial-up” to get my “Macintosh” onto the “net” to find this world wide “web”. Like “magic”!
Published 1994
Good Show Sir Comments: I believe I have discovered a way to use this “dial-up” to get my “Macintosh” onto the “net” to find this world wide “web”. Like “magic”!
Published 1994
June 19th, 2017 at 11:23 am
Val Kilmer struggles to understand how he managed to install María del Rosario Mercedes Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza and Cthulhu instead of Lode Runner.
June 19th, 2017 at 11:24 am
Published in 1994? The original Mac was good and antiquated by then.
June 19th, 2017 at 12:00 pm
Is John DeChancie John de Lancie’s dodgy brother?
That’s not how you spell “intrigue”, incidentally. Unless there’s someone called Intruige who has a web in the book?
June 19th, 2017 at 12:27 pm
Those interactive fiction games always got the ol’ imagination going.
June 19th, 2017 at 12:37 pm
Guy at the bottom: “But where is the ‘any’ key?”
June 19th, 2017 at 12:42 pm
This is actually a fantastic dramatization of the the birth of the first internet troll. The internet was a place of knowledge, sharing, and wonder until this douche showed up.
June 19th, 2017 at 12:56 pm
If the title was MagicWeb would we be getting a fishing net/mermaid/sharktopus?
June 19th, 2017 at 1:22 pm
“OH MY GOD!!!! Cthulhu was supposed to be in the bikini… let me check my code.”
June 19th, 2017 at 3:06 pm
That cover brings back memories from the 90s…
Trying To Make Your Internet Connection Work — A Nightmare You’ll Never Forget
June 19th, 2017 at 3:13 pm
@THX 1138: behold, the evolution of language. I will from this point on refer exclusively to the “Web of Intruige.” My only question: is it pronounced “in-TROYG,” or “in-TROYJ?” The latter sounds a little more continental and sophisticated, I think, but the former packs a bit more punch.
June 19th, 2017 at 3:36 pm
@AR: indeed. Before the mid-Aughts, I would block out a full day for any software update.
@SI: lol! 🙂
June 19th, 2017 at 4:52 pm
See? Nora Ephron’s “You’ve Got Mail” could actually have been worse.
June 19th, 2017 at 5:22 pm
an intruiging thread . . . .
June 19th, 2017 at 5:45 pm
Also, dig that high tech phone answering machine combo! Mind you, I wouldn’t touch any of that equipment while he’s got his Tesla coil going.
June 19th, 2017 at 6:31 pm
@TagWizard: another ingruigonging web.
June 19th, 2017 at 6:46 pm
So this computer programmer enters the amazing world of cyberspace to discover a woman dressed as Slave Leia attempting to pacify a rampaging walrus-beast.
He then wonders if someone spiked his coffee with LSD.
June 19th, 2017 at 7:02 pm
Say, what’s keeping the table supported?
June 20th, 2017 at 1:46 am
IN FRONT OF YOU!!!
June 20th, 2017 at 2:20 am
@Lillie: In-TROYG, I think. Continental and classy. Otherwise, I get In-Tru-EE-guh, which… no. Introyg it is. 007 in a tuxedo, racing across Europe on a train with a babe, caught up in introyg.
So, belly dancer and Lovecraftian beast, are caught in an electric web, whilst lightning has just hit a man’s obsolete computer and he’s desperately poking keys and has his multi-line desk phone (no answering machine) handy to call customer service. Some award with a giant globe on top is apparently tentacle-groping his Hugo as well.
Or, you know, what Anna T. and DSWBT said. Cuchi-cuchi.
June 20th, 2017 at 2:48 pm
So basically about some guy who buys a magic modem that lets him connect to the internet 22 years in the future.
June 21st, 2017 at 1:44 am
Has anyone but me noticed that the monster’s fangs look like campfire roasting forks?
June 26th, 2017 at 12:59 am
@Tracy: Thrinacoselache and I are way behind you and way ahead of you, respectively. 🙂