Pop star Prince, owner of the Internet announced today that the web must be shut down for a few minutes tonight while technicians back the whole thing up on his hard-drive.
"Don't worry I'll have it back up before midnight" Prince assured reporters themselves in a daze wondering how Prince of all people got to be owner of the entire World Wide Web. Bill Gates, "in on the deal" traced the history of the Internet from top secret government project to the whole ball of wax sitting on a hard-drive in Prince's game room. Gates explained,
"Up until 2002 nobody owned the Internet, not even me. Prince and I go way back, before his Purple Rain thing even. One day in April, 2002 he called me, asked if it was possible for one entity to actually own the whole web. I told him yes the rest his history."
Google, thinking that THEY owned the Internet was not pleased with the announcement that Prince actually owns THEM. As well as Ebay, Amazon, CNN.COM and all the porn sites in existence. Prince took reporters on a tour of his game room. One reporter, getting a little too close to the computer that houses the web asked Prince,
"What does THIS button do?" to which Prince replied
"NO NO NOOOOOO don't touch THAT button for .."
Surfer's may remember the 2 hours that Amazon went down a few weeks ago. That was the reason.
Normally Prince backs up only small portions of the web nightly but Prince, perhaps stressed about his upcoming Super Bowl performance thought it best to back the whole THING up tonight .. just in case he gets shot on stage.
"I'm going to do some pretty freaky stuff at the bowl" Prince told reporters. When reporters asked Prince
"How freaky?" Prince replied
"Freaky enough to get SHOT that's why I'd best back the whole Internet up .. just in case. I suggest everybody saving their work tonight before going to bed .. just in case I have a hard-drive failure in which case :("
