Stories tagged with "virtual reality"
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Zen and the Art of Transformation
by Robotech_Master 9 months ago
After a while, I figured out what the problem was. I was trying too hard. I thought I had to work out where every bit went an…
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Birth of the Firefox, Part 9
by Robotech_Master 9 months ago
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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And We Could All Use a Little Change
by Robotech_Master 9 months ago
After a couple hours of looking, I found a clearing in the middle of a forest, a ways up a dirt road that didn’t look like it…
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Birth of the Firefox, Part 8
by Robotech_Master 9 months ago
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
by Robotech_Master 9 months ago
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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Put Your Head Between Your Knees…
by Robotech_Master 9 months ago
I opened my…headlights.
It had all gone according to plan. The schmuck running the body hadn’t noticed I had subverted his s…
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Loopholes
by Robotech_Master 9 months ago
And then I found it: the emergency ejection code. If the physical body of these robots got too damaged, they were programmed …
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Directory Search
by Robotech_Master about 1 year ago
It didn’t make sense. I backed off a moment, then took another look and saw things from a new perspective. What I had taken t…
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No Place Like Home
by White Hat about 1 year ago
It was almost unspeakably brilliant.
Behind a flimsy (though twisted) web of routers, DMZ subnets, WAN bridges and authentic…
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The Sims has just become Oh So Much More
by Saint Chuck about 1 year ago
I’ve always been a bit of a computer nerd. I live on computer games and HTML. I know almost everything there is to know abo…
