Quote #560
Unwittingly, Bob pressed the Enter key, sending a stream of zeros and ones
in electronic form across the computer's bus, through the processor, out the
serial cable, through the 56K modem, and into the seamy and unfathomable
world of the Internet where his MasterCard number became as ubiquitous as
the cute chord that plays when you boot up a Windows based computer.
-- Alan C. Elliott's entry to the 2001 annual Bulwer-Lytton contest
Unwittingly, Bob pressed the Enter key, sending a stream of zeros and ones
in electronic form across the computer's bus, through the processor, out the
serial cable, through the 56K modem, and into the seamy and unfathomable
world of the Internet where his MasterCard number became as ubiquitous as
the cute chord that plays when you boot up a Windows based computer.
-- Alan C. Elliott's entry to the 2001 annual Bulwer-Lytton contest
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