Pickles by Brian Crane for March 23, 2021

If there’s a way to delete the internet i’m sure you’ll find a way Earl. This time i think all you did is smoked your laptop.

We should be so lucky.

time to get a new laptop (and set up the Internet again)

I’ve noticed that when I get more than about 15 Facebook tabs open in Firefox, everything gets slow and non-responsive. I blame an incredible amount of javascript at Facebook: I can have more than thirty tabs open on sites that don’t try to offload their calculations onto my machine.

But then where would we get our comic?!

C’mon Earl, embrace the dark side with your malevolent superpower.

Earl, you are my hero.

Might actually be an improvement.

Hey Earl! If you hear a knock on the door, answer it. You just won the Nobel peace prize!

If only

That’s imposs…

Earl let the smoke out!

If it means that we’ll never hear from certain people who are only famous because of the internet, I’m with you, Earl!

Crud?

Earl now you must go shopping with Opal to get a new laptop !

I’ll give up gocomics when they pry the mouse from my cold dead hands.

He says from the internet….lol

It’s bitter sweet!

Oppressive regimes all over the world are already bidding for your services!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_XaJdDqQA0

OH EARL – if it was that easy I would have done it a LONG TIME AGO – at first by messing up – but now ON PURPOSE – cue wicked laugh soundtrack!!!!

Bring on the Nobel Prize for generating an (at least brief) world peace.

I dare say, there are many Earl types who thought the same way.

Be a Nobel prize for you Earl.. if, you can remember how you did it.

It’s okay, Earl. I have a copy on my hard drive.

Back before the world wide web and before everyone had a computer we had one network computer for our entire office. I was taking a programming course and needed to write a simple fahrenheit to celcius conversion program in Basic. On the 2nd or 3rd trial run the computer went into a do-loop and crashed. A few minutes later I got a call from IT because I had managed to crash the main-frame as well.

This reminds me of an episode of The IT Crowd where Jen thinks the internet is in a black box. She drops it and then panics, along with the room full of stupid people.

You’re better off.

Like that’s even possi…..

Funny—it’s still up and running for me. Try again, Earl, please.

I find the interweb to be useful in many respects. However, I did finally abandon Facebook.

Earl’s computer makes some rather non-conventional sounds.

You quack me up

Yep, Earl did us all a big favor.

I need to send this comic to my software “design for defense in depth” prof. We actually had a good deal of discussion around why the internet itself is “durable”. Ironically – it is, in part, because it wasn’t centrally designed. The parts of the internet that have more traffic have more paths which make it more robust and the part of the internet that has less traffic have fewer. Which occurred more or less organically. Thus, it is relatively easy to wipe out parts of the internet no one cares about and extremely difficult to wipe out the parts of the internet that everyone cases about. We had a pretty interesting project in determining why the internet could grow organically like this and get more stable where in applications they get less.

Good riddance.

A fresh start can be hard, but is sometimes quite welcome.

Can someone tell me what the last panel says… my screen suddenly went blank.

If you can’t get on the internet from your computer, does it really exist?

It’s embarrassing when I do that.

I can echo Bill the Nuke’s comment. Back in the late 1960’s our office had a very noisy Model 33 teletype machine that used a dial-up connection to a mainframe computer. We wrote programs in Basic and coded them on punched paper tape for upload to the big computer. One of our workers wrote a program that unintentionally caused the computer to do a destructive read/write of its entire memory. After the second try to get the program to run, the people running the computer called asking us to stop trying to run that program.

BURPLE and DOINK. Brian Crane is obviously a fan of the late Don Martin.

I kicked Book Face to the curb MONTHS ago.