During the Warring States era, the King of Qi dispatched a messenger to the State of Zhou. The Queen of Zhou asked the messenger: “How is the harvest in Qi? How are the people faring?”

When at last she inquired after the king, the messenger complained: “Milady, you did not first ask about milord, but about crops and commoners. Doesn’t milady think that a bit backwards?”

The Queen of Zhou replied: “If there are no crops, then what commoners are there to speak of? And if there are no commoners, then what exactly is he king of?”

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I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it still was like this. Let me tell the story:

I was 25, the channel members were like 20 to 30 years old. Somehow this young girl found her way to us. She was 14 when she joined the channel. >>