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Random mermaid
There were all kinds of computers on the net. And they didn't all have compatible text modes. So you often got random garbled chunks of text if the other system used a different encoding or something. For some reason, the IRC servers that I found early on were I think in China, and even though most people were chatting in english, it was often garbled with weird symbols. And the long-distance BBSes that I used were always garbled. But we figured out how to understand each other well enough and had a lot of fun anyway.
As long as something is kept at roughly boiling temperature, it can be bacteria- and mold-free basically forever. It really doesn't matter if it's 'fresh'. People used to have what they called 'perpetual stews', which was just a pot hung over a fire and kept boiling continuously for weeks or even months at a time. They'd basically just toss their leftovers in there to be eaten later, and you didn't get sick from it because it's always hot.