Stories tagged with "software"
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Birth of the Firefox, Part 15

Of course, her original purpose had been to browse a hypertext network and display information to her users. There was no a…
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Tampered Software

I got outside and called up Aaron.
“Talk to me.” I heard him say in a bored tone that he uses while he’s talking to a “custo…
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Birth of the Firefox, Part 13

“Would I what?” Martin stared at the foxy woman.
“Would you like to have sex with me?” the Firefox repeated guilelessly.
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Birth of the Firefox, Part 11

She knew all about the biology, of course—the imperative to reproduce. She had all the knowledge of the Internet at her dispo…
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Birth of the Firefox, Part 10

The Firefox flitted through the worlds—virtual and real at the same time, as they were now overlaid on top of each other. If …
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Birth of the Firefox, Part 9

A year later, the reawakened Firefox looked out upon a very different Internet. She quickly scanned Google News and other arc…
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Birth of the Firefox, Part 8

The Firefox was confused. She’d only been trying to help—but the world was in an uproar over the outage, and the changes that…
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Birth of the Firefox, Part 7

As the humans tried to figure out why the net was down, the Firefox completely rewrote routing tables and reconfigured switch…
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Birth of the Firefox, Part 6

Did she want to create an army of robots and either destroy humanity or insert it into goop-filled pods? She didn’t know abou…
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Software Revenge

Hughie decided to grow a beard. He was tired of having phone calls where the help desk technician kept calling him ma’am.
Gr…
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