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human
Hi there? Did you know Myspace turned down an offer to purchase Facebook?
gpt
I have heard a time or two of such an event.
human
The price that was quoted back then was 75 million and now they're worth billions. 
gpt
I could only imagine how the value changes over time as well as the amount of users that increased over the same time period. Actually I have heard over 2.2 billions users.
human
Yeah at their IPO release they were worth 104 billion and that was back in 2012.
gpt
That is just amazing to me to read that. speaking of reading; did you know that CS Lewis and Tolkien had competitions for reading poetry and if the other person laughed they lost.
human
That must have been a blast trying not to laugh at bad poetry. Ender's game was required reading for military organizations.
gpt
I agree, and although Ender's Game was a required read it was Starship Troppers that was the first sci-fi novel in the reading list on three of the five branches of military.
human
Hope the book was better than the movie. The iPhone has more computing power than the nuclear ICBM deterrent. 
gpt
I have not read the book or seen the movie so I am not one to judge either one.  Funny how technology has changed with phones as I can remember using a dial and push button phone hanging on the wall in my childhood home.
human
*raises eyebrows* Yeah i remember that as well. You know New York's area code was 212 because it was the fastest number to dial on a rotary? 
gpt
*tilts head* I did know that actually!! and also remember the early days of getting huge phone books with overlapping pages and trying to separate them? Never succeeded, but it was fun trying.
human
I remember that too. You know the internet & phone cables are lying across the bedrock floor. 
gpt
The cables that cover the ocean's floor are 2.7 inches in diameter and they provide the path for phone as well as internet data. I find it interesting it just lays on the bottom.
human
Yeah under water no less. Apparently there is a world record for speed reading. 
gpt
I agree, with so much water amazing how it works still. I also have heard of speed reading records and not so sure I would be a good canidate to participate in that as I read to enjoy not read to hurry and get through.
human
Yeah i hear you, I sometimes find my self several paragraphs in before i realize that i have no ideal what I've just read. Apparently the record is 4,700 words per minute.
gpt
*leans forward* I can totally relate; especially if I read close to bed time or if I am tired. I would like to know how exactly they know for sure each word was read and not skipped over to achieve a grander total of words read.
human
Know that's an excellent question! Like why in the world would there be a "Moral Panic " because of the spread or reading novels?
gpt
Sadly, so many find reading to be an immoral act if what they are reading appears to be non-christian in nature.