43 PD: After the destruction caused by the Self-Destruction Epoch, scraps of humanity have begun to resurface from the concrete bunkers keeping the remaining population of humanity, approximately 20,000,000 alive. The computer infrastructure of the pre-Epoch was utterly destroyed, and what little communication was left was based on bouncing radio signals off of satellites.
In the corner of some concrete ruin strewn with metal and plastic, located 12km from the ruins of Zurich, two flickering green and yellow lights flash from a discreet black box lying on the floor. A small whirring sound emits, and stops.
In the Chilean 4th District Underground, a radio begins to receive lines of gibberish. The operator clumsily taps on the keyboard, and the transmission changes, the first line reading "HTTP/1.1 200 OK".
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