Pickles by Brian Crane for March 23, 2021

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    allen@home  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    parforden  over 3 years ago

    We should be so lucky.

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 3 years ago

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

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    Concretionist  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    pschearer Premium Member over 3 years ago

    But then where would we get our comic?!

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    syzygy47  over 3 years ago

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

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    Cminuscomics&stories Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Earl, you are my hero.

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    The Old Wolf  over 3 years ago

    Might actually be an improvement.

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    macky87  over 3 years ago

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

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    tzid  over 3 years ago

    If only

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    mandy052878  over 3 years ago

    That’s imposs…

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    iggyman  over 3 years ago

    Earl let the smoke out!

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    jagedlo  over 3 years ago

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

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    Darryl Heine  over 3 years ago

    Crud?

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    Breadboard  over 3 years ago

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

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    Jeffin Premium Member over 3 years ago

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

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    jaythor70  over 3 years ago

    He says from the internet….lol

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    Zebrastripes  over 3 years ago

    It’s bitter sweet!

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    The Reader Premium Member over 3 years ago

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

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    TheTrueNorth  over 3 years ago

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

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    Saddenedby Premium Member over 3 years ago

    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!!!!

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    Wichita1.0  over 3 years ago

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

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    MuddyUSA  Premium Member over 3 years ago

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

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    Alberta Oil Premium Member over 3 years ago

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

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    anomaly  over 3 years ago

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

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    Bill The Nuke  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    Queen of America  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    hooglah  over 3 years ago

    You’re better off.

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    Indianapolis Smith  over 3 years ago

    Like that’s even possi…..

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    Mayor Snorkum  over 3 years ago

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

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    Aficionado  over 3 years ago

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

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    tremaine53  over 3 years ago

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

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    Dr_Fogg  over 3 years ago

    You quack me up

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    zeexenon  over 3 years ago

    Yep, Earl did us all a big favor.

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    Thinkingblade  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    theoldidahofox  over 3 years ago

    Good riddance.

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    Grace Premium Member over 3 years ago

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

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    harvey812abc  over 3 years ago

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

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    Doug K  over 3 years ago

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

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    David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace  over 3 years ago

    It’s embarrassing when I do that.

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    Billy Yank  over 3 years ago

    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.

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    retrocool  over 3 years ago

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

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    pbr50138  over 3 years ago

    I kicked Book Face to the curb MONTHS ago.

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