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100x450 - 44 - internet, episode iv: a new hope

ACT II, SCENE II

[A university campus. Stairs overlooking a field.]

MAN: You know, for all the talk of sunsets being these amazing visual tapestries that stretch beyond our power of description, this one mostly just looks like a cheap Photoshop gradient.

WOMAN: The kind you'd see on a tricked-out MySpace page.

MAN: Or a personal website from the early to mid-90's.

WOMAN: Or a professional website, from the same time period.

MAN: Geocities.

WOMAN: Angelfire.

MAN: Friendster.

WOMAN: Wait, Friendster came after that generation -- Friendster was the dot-com bubble. Friendster was the Internet, Episode IV: A New Hope.

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