#743: Infrastructures explain

2003:

[Cueball approaches a bearded fellow.]

Cueball: Did you get my essay?

Bearded Fellow: Yeah, it was good! But it was a .doc; You should really use a more open-

Cueball: Give it a rest already. Maybe we just want to live our lives and use software that works, not get wrapped up in your stupid nerd turf wars.

Bearded Fellow: I just want people to care about the infrastructures we’re building and who-

Cueball: No, you just want to feel smugly superior. You have no sense of perspective and are probably autistic.

2010:

Cueball: Oh my God! We handed control of our social world to Facebook and they’re DOING EVIL STUFF!

Bearded Fellow: Do you see this?

[Inset, the bearded fellow rubs his index and middle fingers against his thumb.]

Bearded Fellow: It’s the world’s tiniest open-source violin.