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[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Back during the late 90s era of internet, I got into a MASSIVE amount of troyble over a finger slip in a high school computer lab.

We were all assigned an African country to write an essay about. We had to only use internet cited sources.

I was assigned a country with the Namba people. Somehow I fat-fingered an "L" in there in the worst places. (Between the 'b' and the 'a' - don't google it)

It triggered my school's search filter. Altavista got involved. It was a nightmare.

The police got in contact with my parents, thinking I was being groomed and in danger of kidnapping.

It sucked.

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought I knew where this was going when you said "African country" and "finger slip".

[–] Brown5500@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I'm too scared now to ask AI how many g's there are in Niger?

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