“I know what
you did last summer.”
Professor X,
X-Men #quote
How many times
do you look before crossing the street? Once? Twice? Thrice? Quice?
Frice? Sice? Svice? Eice? Nice? Tence? Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The Old
Video
The video site
YourTube possessed a long history on the Internet. Founded in 2007 it
was still going strong in the year 2300. The company that owned it
was one of the many ancient Internet giants, Juggle. Thanks to
massive companies like these that last hundred of years and pass down
generations, so do the websites they own, like YourTube. And these
companies maintenance the data for the websites, backing up the data,
transferring it from server to server slowly over the decades. With
how large data storage becomes in this future this becomes easier and
more attractive to the consumer than saying “We'll eventually
delete your data.”
And so from
this process YourTube holds some very old videos. One being “Baby's
First Words”, a simple cute video where a mother was recording her
smiling child and it says, “Cookies!” over and over in the most
adorable voice. In 2300 the video held over two trillion hits,
gathered over the past three hundred years. And with it piles, and
piles of video comments through all those years which are better
skimmed through since all of them together could easily make a novel
or two.
One comment in
2300 asks, “What does cookies mean?”
A reply under
it is, “It's old English for bakums.”
A comment in
2245 said, “That woman talking to the baby sounds the President!”
A comment in
2199 said, “Why are you all wasting your time watching these
videos? The world will end in 2200!”
In 2120 someone
said, “Awwww....so cute.”
In 2090 a post
read, “Do you want to be your own boss? Work out of your own home?
Click on this link!”
In 2050 someone
asked, “How many cookies are they feeding that kid?”
In 2000 someone
commented, “First!”
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