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Consequently it had become almost impossible to use
yahoo messenger in the computer center. (Unless one
was with Axle who inevitably found a way to make it
work). But this was not enough to stop persistent
people. Some deligent person had found a website
where a lot of young people from Indian and abroad
conglomerated. The best part about the website being
that it had an in-browser chat client which allowed
people to chat within the browser without the need to
install anything on the computer. That website was
http://sprint.bantu.com
Initially designed to be a hub for the customers of sprint
network, the website now played host to a plethora of
people from all over India who couldn’t access yahoo
messenger. Chatters mostly consisted of student from
various institutes like the IIT’s, jaipur’s vanasthali and
colleges of the Delhi University. Plenty of girls used to
chat on it and so the hope of finding that special
someone brought a lot of IITians in the chat rooms of
sprint.bantu.com
Kaka logged on under the username: crazyeyes and
started hunting. After browsing through a few chatrooms
kaka finally found a few profiles that satisfied his
criteria. He shot off IM’s for like half an hour to the
“qualified” people just to realize that no one was
replying him. Frustrated, kaka asked Mariyal if how
things were going for him.
”Abe Mariyal tumhe koi bandi mili hai kyaa?”
“Are haan. Ek bandi mil gayi hai bhaiya. aur to aur
kanpur ki hi hai aur IIT campus main hi rehti hai. kyaa
hua tumhe koi nahi mili kyaa abhi tak??” replied Mariyal
with the last line in a half mocking tone.
“Are nahi yaar. badi der se koshish kar rahe hai” replied
kaka morosely