Dialogue: The Internet

Dialogue: The Internet

-       What if the Internet crashes?

-       How do you mean?

-       Like, what if it crashes?

-       Can you explain?

-       No.

-       How could it crash? It’s the Internet?

-       I mean like, will I lose everything on my blog? How do you back up a blog?

-       You don’t have to back it up. Its on the Internet.

-       Yeah, but what if it crashes?

-       The Internet?

-       Yeah.

-       How could the Internet crash?

-       I don’t know, but what if it does? I would lose everything.

-       Just get an external hard drive.

-       Well, if you think its really impossible that the Internet will crash, I guess I don’t need one.

-       I don’t know if the Internet will crash.

-       So I should get the hard drive?

-       Yeah, probably.

-       Probably?

-       Yeah.

-       But you said –

-       Yeah well I wouldn’t want to be responsible if the Internet crashes and you lose your blog.

-       Imagine if it actually crashed though.

-       Yikes.

-       I would know so many less people. I would lose a lot of friends.

-       Or realize you don’t have many.

-       Hey!

-       I don’t have many either!

-       Well, we would still talk right?

-       Yeah of course. We were friends before Facebook so we aren’t dependent on it.

-       Right, yes. I agree.

-       I hope it doesn’t crash though.

-       Yeah me too. I hope we didn’t jinx it.

-       Yeah.

-       Yeah.

-       So are you going to get the external hard drive?

-       I think I will. I think it will be comforting to see it you know. I mean, obviously I wouldn’t see all my files but I would know they’re really there, you know. Contained in that little black vault. Because you can’t even see the Internet. How do you even know its there.

-       Of course its there.

-       Yeah, but how do you know? How do you know what it looks like? I mean if you can’t see it?

-       I mean, you can’t see God.

-       Exactly my point.

-       Right.