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My name is Norm and I used to be ‘fraid of the world wide web. Hi Norm. Hey Norm. It all started when I was little. There I was in my crib. I was just sucking on my thumb when momsie dropped a netbook into the crib.

That’s how it started. Innocently enough. Just me and my blankie, my diaper, and the netbook. And one well used thumb.

So I turned the sucker on to see what it could do.

There was this thing called a web browser. I didn’t know what it did but I double clicked on it and up it come.

And there it was. A search engine.

I don’t recollect exactly which one it was. But it must’ve been a bigun as every time I started the web browser it always went to that search engine.

So I started to type things in for the search engine to look for.

I wanted to know the really deep stuff. Like, if I suck my thumb to long will it get smaller? Yea, when you’re that age you got to know the important stuff.

So after I was relieved that my thumb wouldn’t be getting any smaller than I was finally able to relax. I was so relieved.

Then, everywhere I went on that web browser thing it started to happen.

I’d go to a web site and they would show me advertisements of, well, thumbs.

It didn’t matter which web site I hit, there was the thumb.

I tried different browsers. I tried the anti-privacy stuff and yet it was always there. The mighty thumb.

I didn’t know what to do since I was only a two year old ya see so I did what anyone of yous would have done. I left it alone in the corner. All by its lonesome. Just me and my blankie and diaper in the one corner and the netbook in the other.

It just sat there.

Not saying a word.

Just taunting me.

Come on little guy it said. I won’t be showing you the thumb anymore.

So I trusted it.

I turned it on.

I went to the web and saw..

The thumb.

I couldn’t take it anymore.

I picked up the netbook and with all my strength I threw it.

It barely hit the wooden slats on my crib and bounced harmless back down onto the cushion.

And there it sat.

We had a stare down competition and it had to cheat but it won.

What could I do.

It had invaded my crib and it didn’t look like it was going to leave.

I curled up with my blankie in the corner and went to sleep.

When I awoke it beckoned to me. Just one more chance.

I was stuck. A prisoner in my own crib with that thing just waiting to show me the thumb. I cried.

Momsie came and hugged me and put me back down again. The netbook stayed. She had totally missed the point.

And there it sat. Sitting in the corner. Waiting to show me. The thumb.