(these are some of the frequently heard rantings radiating from households across the nation and abroad as a new generation of Cyber Chat Freaks are initiated into the "Cyber Abyss")

"The Cyber Abyss" as it is called... is not really an abyss at all... but a frozen state of space and time where the best you can expect is to be knocked off line!

Where conversations freeze and pulses race as the clocks start ticking all over the place!

The first time this happens to you... YOU WILL know that the BACK button is always the FIRST to go!

As friends left behind in Cyber Land try sending you rope, glue or even a hand, they will watch in dispair as you fade in and out....some will just sit there while others will SHOUT.."Hold on friend" "hold tight" "dont let go" "save tonight!"

See now, they fear, they may be next... on the list of disappearances off the Talk City List. A moment of silence, a short deep cheer... "are you back?" "are you back?" Say what? (am I here?)

You are yelling now as you tear up the files......finding yet another IRC from deep in the pile. "Not this one" "Not that one" "AH HAH! Here's the BEST! The Abyss buster 5000 voted #1 by the rest!'

A long sigh of relief as you renter the fold. And you smile as friends greet you "welcome back now take hold!"

WB, WB, re-WB.... thank you, thank you, is all this for ME?

"Excuse me" you say, "I'm sorry for that" "This things a piece of junk now lets continue the chat!"