MEMORY SEQUENCE 001 - VIDEO

[lifescratched]

[There is a view of intense brown eyes peering right up to the D-Terminal, which widen as the screen activates.] It is glowing!

[The eyes draw back, startled, to reveal a face with a good deal of frown lines for his age, a scar under one eye, and long braided hair, the rest of it tied back in a ponytail. He looks offscreen to where his partner, Armadillomon, trots into view and sits beside him.]

That's right, you switched on the video function. [Seeing his confusion, Armadillomon elaborates,] Now you can talk to the others!

I can? But I do not know where to begin, or what to ask. There are so many things I do not know. [Still confused, his attention is back on the screen again.] If anyone is listening, I have just arrived here. This spirit--

--Digimon--

--is calling itself my partner. I do not understand his explanation of this world, nor did I understand all of the guide...

[Armadillomon pokes his face into the screen.] Connor doesn't know what computers are, or what the internet is, or even electricity! I thought everyone knew that.

Apparently not. [Connor's reply is clipped, brisk, as though already losing his patience with his new partner. He tugs the odd shelled creature out of the way of the screen and addresses the communicator again.] If anyone is able to provide me with a better explanation, I would be grateful. [He inclines his head.] Thank you.

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[thatwasme]

( Odd -- but informative. He's from Earth, for one, and the year places him well before anything like computers has been dreamed up. )

Same country as me, actually, though you'd need to add over two hundred years to get close to my present day. Most of what they're talking about here doesn't get invented until the mid to late 1900's.

What've people managed to explain to you so far?

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[lifescratched]

How is such a large disparity in time possible?

The purpose of computers has been explained to me. When I enquired as to how it functioned, my informer was unable to explain. I suppose such technology is complex, even for those familiar with it?

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[thatwasme]

By whatever means allows a digital and physical world to merge into one entity. Right now it doesn't make a great deal of sense.

( It's intriguing that it exists, on another hand. )

Explaining the ins and outs to a person who doesn't have any context is hard, but let me think... Have you ever heard of, seen, or used a slide rule before? I think those were around as early as the 1600's.

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[lifescratched]

Yes, I am familiar with them.

[They were a part of Achilles' crash course education when he was a teenager, although he's not too eager to see one again. So many memories of awful math lessons.]

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[thatwasme]

Slide rules are precursors to the kinds of computers being talked about here. The basic idea of something that accepts input and produces some kind of output is unchanged, if the mechanisms that allow it to preform its calculations have gotten more and more complex over time.

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[lifescratched]

I see. After more than two centuries to develop such technology, it is less surprising that it should reach such an advanced state. Hopefully I will become accustomed to its use quickly.