"No? What's that?"

"It's an online...do you have the internet in your world."

"No, what's that?"

"Where do I start? Do you have computers in your world?"

"Yeah? They're pretty new though."

"Okay, well, when they get a lot better people figure out how to network them and you can communicate between computers and then there are these things called websites where people construct things to be accessed by any computer and Facebook is a one of those for social networking and you make a profile for yourself and you can connect it to other peoples' profiles and specify relationships and one of the options is 'it's complicated' so 'they're my it's complicated on Facebook' became a way of saying 'our relationship is complicated' and what I said is sort of a shortening of that."

"...Okay, I think I followed that."

"Hooray, I'm getting better at explaining things."

"It sounds cool, too."

"It is so useful you have no idea."

"What else does it do?"

The internet: Does all of the things! Checking out library books and registering for things and applying for jobs and reading things and grocery shopping and Edie will be going on like this for some time most likely.

Edie's lovely.

Edie is aware that Annie thinks so, but is she meaningfully informative, is the question.

Yes, that too.

Oh, good, then she can keep on adorably expounding upon things.

Yay~

And by the time Edie runs out of things to say, Annie will have a decent idea of how the internet works.

Yay! "I think we may just have a lower tech level. Not by that much, maybe a few decades, but still significant."

"That sounds plausible. What's your calendar system like?"

"Three hundred and sixty five days in a year, thirteen twenty-eight-day months, there's some fiddling to make it all reliably line up. The year's 1802."

"Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, twelve months with a number of days apiece best described through mnemonic poetry, and the year's 2017. What does your calendar count from?"

"An emperor imposed it on enough of the world that it stuck."

"Ours counts from an arbitrary religious event. People changed it from 'year of the lord' to 'common era', theoretically, but they didn't change the numbers."

"Well, it would be really inconvenient if they did, wouldn't it?"