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| CANADA'S SOURCE FOR INTERNET HUMOUR, PARODY, AND SATIRE
ONLINE-- I just upgraded my computer to a Pentium 4, and I decided to give my old machine to my wife. I figured it was time we had two computers in the house, because my she was already spending too much time on my machine. She liked to play Solitaire, Minesweeper, and the occasional game of Hearts. So I bought her a desk, I installed a router, and I set her up on the home network.
My wife was still new to the Internet, and had never heard of Napster or Kazaa (popular music sharing programs). Her only experience with the World Wide Web was when she did a search on Google looking for patio furniture cushions. But she loved music, and the idea of peer-sharing MP3 songs was quite an attractive concept to her. I helped her set up an account on Kazaa just to get her started; she was looking forward to collecting songs by Neil Diamond, Jackson Browne, and Shania Twain. She took a few moments to get used to the software, and then started searching through the massive lists of song titles. She put in requests for her favourite music artists and then she was underway. Oh this was so exciting for her! She created a directory (with a little help) to keep her songs, and she installed Winamp (all by herself!) to play them. She had a decent set of Sony headphones, so I wouldn't be disturbed while she played her tunes. She was all set. Or so I thought. All was going well, and she seemed to be getting the grasp of things. I looked over and noticed that there were several downloads in progress (excellent!), and she looked quite satisfied with her minor victories. There was even one user uploading a song from her new music collection. Everything was working it seemed. I left her to her own devices while I worked on reinstalling all the software I needed on my new machine. She appeared to be listening to music now! I guess my wife wasn't as computer illiterate as I had thought her to be. Ah, but the peace didn't last. Suddenly my wife became extremely agitated, and the worry lines showed on her face. No, it wasn't worry--it was panic! She waved me over hurriedly to look at the "frantic" activity on her screen. "What are you doing dear?" I asked her curiously, when I noticed her hard drive was filling up with duplicates of the songs she already had. "You're downloading songs you've already got!" "No,
I'm not," she replied. "I'm just trying to get back the songs
that these users keep taking away from me!"
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