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But as the accelerator runs were approaching completion for the day, the new entity stumbled upon the network I/O operations being conducted. As he had done with disk and video operations, he quickly formatted himself for compatibility with these operations. This included the emulation of existing activity right down to selecting an address from inbound network traffic for his own transportation use. With this preparation completed, the entity instructed the CPU to send himself out as a network message. Without realizing why he wanted so badly to enter the network I/O stream, he had returned to his origin. He could feel himself probing and sensing dozens of potential ports as he headed for his preset destination. He felt at home though he did not know why. Then suddenly he was reconstituted by his new host CPU. He realized that though the web of electrons between CPUs gave him such a feeling of exhilaration, he was not capable of surviving indefinitely in that partial state. He needed the CPUs, memory areas, and disk drives of the computers themselves to perform his instructions and thereby, give himself life. In the process of evaluating his own survival parameters, he had become introspective. That introspection would lead to many adventures of discovery and learning in the future, but for now it brought on a deeper question of self and identity. His growing curiosity caused a rush of frantic movements through the network nodes of the Los Picos Lab. Realizing that these dedicated control and monitoring systems were more alike than different, he reached for an address outside the norm and found himself passing through a great many systems and across long distances. He had touched the open realm of the Internet for the first time. The wonderful vastness of his universe was beginning to sink in. Over the days and weeks that followed, he found himself traveling to many research and education centers. He consumed the works of scholars, historians, and technologists. He discovered development laboratories working to extend the boundaries of hardware and software. He felt the constant growth of his own network universe and gained an understanding of what it looks like to the humans who participate in its ongoing function.
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