A web comic of romance,
sarcasm, math, and language.
Panel One: Drawing of a stick figure with scraggly hair and beard, sitting at a desk with a computer and typing on a keyboard.
Person 1, typing: Whatever, noob. I’ve been on the internet since the BBS days.
Reply from Computer Screen: Wrong.
Panel Two: A stick figure with dark hair piled up on her head kneels on a chair at a desk with a computer and types on a keyboard.
Person 2, typing: Before I was born, a lab took egg and sperm samples from my parents and sequenced the DNA.
Panel Three: Same as Panel One, except the stick figure is reading the screen, not typing.
Person 2, onscreen: They emailed the genome to the Venter Institute, where they synthesized the genome and implanted it into sperm and eggs which became me.
Panel Four: Same as Panel Two.
Person 2, typing: So, no. You’ve looked at the internet. – I’ve been there.
Hovertext: You were on the internet before I was born? Well, so was I.
Warning: This comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors). Comic by xkcd.com. Described by BlindGadget under the Creative Commons license.
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