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Re:The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Simulated by ChuckMcM on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @08:07PM (#14556985)
In college when my future mother-in-law called to ask if I knew where her daughter was I absently replied "Just a sec, let me finger[1] her." It wasn't until the extended silence on the line did it occur to me that a my use of jargon may have been misinterpreted.

[1] For you who don't know, the finger(1) command and protocol would return you the status of someone logged in and what they were working on (if they had set their status). Sort of like Google Chat used to do before they ruined it.

Re:The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Simulated by _jal on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @08:42PM (#14557118)
That's funny.

I have a similar story about, on request, describing the sorts of day-to-day things I then did to a family member who doesn't have a conception of what "internet companies" do.

It involved databases and the phrase "take a dump".

Re:The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Simulated by ouid on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:08AM (#14558248)
They haven't ruined it yet, you're still allowed to use the good google chat for 12 days.