[Warning: Old story, read with caution]
When Princess Celestia gets a computer, Luna is distrustful at first. Then the Internet pulls her in. But will she fall under its spell?
Contains an especially offhand ref to Luna Game 0. Also, the mane six appear at the end.
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Not bad I guess.
Well. that was interesting...
I'd give it five out of ten.
I'm just waiting to see how much rage
you get in the comments for describing the computer as having come from "Apple Incorporated", while giving it a Windows interface. 
Ya that's the Internet for ya
So Luna destroyed the internet? Nice.
I never really thought about it before, but that would be really disturbing.
Anyway, I thought this story was entertainingly silly and I enjoyed it. Too bad Luna will never get to read it now
JOINT REPLY!! Yay!
3176117 Thanks :D
I didn't think about that XD
3176363 Thanks :D
3176461 Cool! :D For a one-shot, I'd say that was pretty good.
3176514
3176555 Yeah LOL
3176586 I know...XD Yeah, she technically did, didn't she? XD
3177799 Thanks! And yeah, that would be pretty weird.
3183553 Thanks LOL
3176514 OK, so I changed it to Ponysoft LOL
3189311
Remember, for the Apple fanboys, hatred of all things non-Apple is Serious Business.
(Me, I'd have gone for a pony pun, like Uneighsys or Neighpro, but that might be a bit obscure for some folks.)
3189349 LOL XD I don't know what an Apple computer looks like that well. XD And what's Neighpro, un-ponified?
3189357
See, told ya they'd be obscure.
Uneighsys = Unisys
Neighpro = Kaypro. They used to make home computers back in the 80s; they started out making CP/M-based "luggables" (those suitcase-sized portable machines we used to use before laptops were invented), transitioned to MS-DOS machines in the late 80s, and went out of business around 1991-1992. Probably a bit before your time.
3189369 Ohhh. That's interesting! I probably never would have known that if I hadn't made that mistake in my story! XD
EDIT: Oh, hay, look what I found on eBay! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-NLS-Kaypro-II-portable-PC-computer-matching-Kaypro-printer-TURNS-ON-/121173629740?pt=US_Vintage_Computers_Mainframes&hash=item1c3682db2c It's incredible, isn't it?
3189566
Good luck getting it to do anything without discs, though! (CP/M was an 8-bit operating system which pre-dates even MS-DOS, and back then just about every microcomputer maker -- we called them "microcomputers" or "home computers" back then 
-- had their own "special sauce" disc format that wasn't compatible with anyone else's disc format, so just sticking an old MS-DOS floppy in there won't work. It probably wouldn't even be able to read it, and certainly couldn't run it.)
Yep, that's one of the old CP/M-based "luggables" all right.
It's a bit unusual to see it paired with the matching printer -- but not unusual enough for me to drop $250 on it to add it to my collection. I've got enough old-school hardware hanging around already.
3189612 lol XD that's crazy. I'm glad I have a Toshiba laptop
3195139
Heh, well, it's just The Way Things Were back then. The first practical "ready-to-use-out-of-the-box" home computers didn't hit the market until around 1977, so the whole idea of a "home computer" that an individual could actually own was still a pretty new concept at the time, and there were a lot of different competing manufacturers who all thought their particular idea of what should be in a home computer was the "right" way.
If you're interested, pick up a copy of "Commodore: A Company on the Edge" by Brian Bagnall; it's a fascinating behind-the-scenes account of the company that introduced the Commodore-64, which still ranks as the single most popular model of computer ever sold.
3195265 Ooh, cool! I've watched some TV shows about old computers, including a Modern Marvels show, and it all is pretty cool XD