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It had me for a while, and is still entertaining enough to keep reading, but just to be clear: this is fictional.

Oblique disclaimer: http://www.arpanetdialogues.net/disclaimer/

Interview with one author: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/04/so-reag...

Previous HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2402649

The fact that this is inauthentic should be reflected in the title.

Looks like the poster changed the title after it hit the front page. I just read the whole thing thinking it was real.

Actually I posted it while reading it thinking the same thing, came back to find it changed out from under me. Kinda sad, it's off the front page now but it's a really neat piece of fiction, would've liked to have updated it with something other than the locked title it has now.

Such a letdown to find out it was fiction. The site was really misleading. I was wondering why all the characters seemed to be so stereotypical of the person at some points though

Oh, so that was fiction. You should have looked a little closer before posting this under its previous title.

I know there's an 'upvote' arrow. But sometimes I wish there was a 'shank in OP's goddamn kidney' glyph.

Fictional Arpanet dialog