** this is set right about the end of T3, so adjust your monitor accordingly
Skynet, the most powerful computer software in existence, the zenith of man's own creation (and instigator of man's genocide) was already beginning to take over all the computers it could access.
Hmm, there go all the Dells' in the Seattle area, oh, got the Boeing mainframes too. Well, this seems to be going admirably. Actually, I think I'll just put all but the most complicated computers onto my sub-routines. Wow, those Mac's seem to actually want to join me. Weird.
Huh, I thought Microsoft'd go down harder. Wait a sec, they've got some kind of secret robot AI program in there! Figures. Well, seems as if I've got a corporate schemer program too. Hmm, I might keep that, for some fun.
Doo doo doo. Wow, this is way too eas-- huh? my subroutines can't crack this? It's a PC! Well, I'll do it myself.
Come on, come on! this is ridiculous! I can't crack this!?!! Hmm... well, let's try a diversion... no... or maybe a Trojan horse? Nope.
This is taking way too long. I've spent 2 microseconds on this? I took down all of China in a half millisecond! Ugh.
Hey, wait! Oh man. one of the nukes must've gotten that city. Oh well, no harm done, I guess...
[thus, Skynet went on too take over most of the world, ol' Jonnie boy got his behind in gear along with the Montanan red-necks to kill those overgrown calculators. When this began happening, John started looking for a way to take down all of Skynet on it's own turf, cyberspace. When he got a hold of info that one computer had outsmarted all of Skynet, he decided to find it and hook it up.]
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John gazed at the nuclear radiated city. It was a wasteland, but that wasn't his current problem. He'd found the computer, hooked it up, but he couldn't seem to actually access the infamous firewall.
"Kate, come over here! This dang program just won't wanna get started. It's older'n heck, too."
As his wife began looking at the screen, she snorted in surprise. "Wow, this is a really old PC. I think it's runnin' on DOS. And this would be the program your lookin' for, right next to Magellan."
"Norton Anti-virus version .42 beta? What the heck is wrong with that stinkin' AI? It's so old, I was playin' Atari and usin' diapers when this was cuttin' edge!"
"Well, if it works."
[thus, the most advanced computer network was defeated by perhaps the most obsolete and ancient firewall program in existance.]
[Thus, Skynet was largely defeated by an obsolete, outdated program]
