Randall Nathan tried to sign up for Twitter so he could follow the great Andy Borowitz whenever he tweeted. He got to the final step and received the message, "Something is techincally wrong. We're trying to fix it..."
It got him to thinking about old and new technologies. When he was growing up on the farm, if Old Duke, their horse, didn't want to work that day, when he saw Randall or his father coming with the bridle, he ran and stood in the middle of the pond. It was necessary to go off and wait until he forgot why he was in the pond and what he was trying to avoid. Then you could walk up, put the harness on him, and he would pull the plow.
If a computer doesn't work, the technicians say to turn it off and go away and leave it alone for a while. Then harness it up again and see if it will work.
Once Randall's father had gotten Old Duke harnessed up, he would kick him in the behind. Then he would do it again. He called it "rebooting."
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