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Ed Flanders, Deconstruction Worker

"Grandma just texted back some acronym I've never heard of. What's HUH?"

Bob encounters one of the bugs in the Jean Paul Sartre fan website.

'3 Second Loading Zone.'

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

Teacher pointing to P,Q, on board: "OK class, which letter comes next? Redbeard, you should know this."

"Thanks for walking a mile in my shoe but it's beginning to hurt now."

'I didn't do my homework because I forgot my user name and password.'

Girl with smart phone enters door that says "Social Media Studies"

"No, I really thought each sentence ended with an emoji!"

A is for App...B is for Blogger...C is for Celebrity.

Likes: $2.

"Miss Rogers told me I have a personal 'cloud' to store knowledge in."

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

"I don't know what else we can do. He won't look up from the screen!"

"Since he got that thing, he mostly just kills time."

'Nurse, why is there always a fly in my ointment?'

"You be the moral grandstander and I'll be the politically incorrect troll."

"But how do I accomplish that in 140 characters or less?"

Ninedency: A budding tendency

"Mum! - T.S. Eliot - 'Humankind cannot bear much reality'."

"I find it so stimulating to learn new software."

"I'm starting my own delivery service. Is there anything you want to borrow from my Dad?!"

'I bought him to retrieve my e-mails.'

"It's great to see Biff; Socksie the cat is out of the bag..."

"No, son, you’re not ‘M for Mature.’"

'This computer has a fast modem, the latest Pentium, increased RAM, a huge hard drive and broadband connections. Only one problem...slow pointer fingers.'

Computer games

'An encyclopedia? I don't know. Let's look up what it is on Wikipedia.'