In February 1996 an obscure government cipher clerk
named David Coppard posted The IT Packet Diddler on the
World Wide Web.
It was an immediate success: in six months alone, over
thirteen people visited the site. An international campaign was
mounted to give Buzz Jackson a shiny brass statue.
But such acclaim was not without cost. Not long after
the site was posted on the web, Mr. Coppard disappeared
mysteriously. There are unconfirmed reports that two men hustled him out
of his apartment in the dead of night with a burlap Overwaitea bag over his head. To
this day his exact whereabouts are unknown, although quite recently his
name has been linked to the imminent onset of the Age of Chaos.
Meanwhile, the site languished, uncared-for and
unloved, for months, until legal counsel for McWetboy Enterprises and
Cheese Doodles, trying to declare Mr. Coppard legally dead so
as to access his cache of Tajik dairy-sector mutual funds, stumbled
across a dusty laptop hidden behind fifty-seven 28-oz. cans of
botulistic corned beef hash. Thinking there would be naughty
pictures contained therein, the lawyer turned on the computer.
Instead, he found the Diddler.
A mysterious chain of events ensued. The lawyer was
found eaten by a feral tribe of expatriate Waterloo kinesiology
grads, who took the disk home with them as a fertility totem.
They, in turn, grew hideous moles on their earlobes. The disk then
passed through a series of hosts, leaving a trail of carnage, suffering
and questionable fashion choices, until it arrived on my desk.
By that point the Diddler clearly had seen
better days. Some of its icons were missing, and nearly all of its
external links were broken. But there was no way of telling
whether it still retained its potency.
Do I dare suffer the consequences of presenting the
Diddler to you?
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