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It Came From The Internet

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It Came From The Internet	comment	The Give Yourself Goosebumps book where a computer virus affects the real world."You" have been given a new web crawler, Spyder, which turns out to be a real monster. Now it's bitten and infected you with a memory-erasing bug, and you must hurry up and find a cure.The Spyder, as well as the supporting character Rachel, will later reappear in Goosebumps HorrorTown in an event named after the book.
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It Came From The Internet / int_115d318	type	And Then John Was a Zombie
It Came From The Internet / int_115d318	comment	And Then John Was a Zombie: More than one bad ending have you and your friend Mark turning into Spyders yourself, where you're then assimilated into the Internet to infect more people.
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It Came From The Internet / int_196d2598	type	Too Good to be True
It Came From The Internet / int_196d2598	comment	Too Good to Be True: As it turns out, the Spyder originates from a program you installed for free. Your bestie Mark lampshades that it's "too shady" for a free program, there must be some catch to it.
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It Came From The Internet / int_2cbaa888	type	Empty Shell
It Came From The Internet / int_2cbaa888	comment	The first of several side-effects from getting bitten by the crawler. You'll lose your memory at a rapid pace, either turning into an Empty Shell or devolving into another sentient virus.
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It Came From The Internet / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
It Came From The Internet / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: Dr. Bronstein, the scientist who developed the Spyder program, and unfortunately you'll need to enlist his help in one of the paths. His alignment is ambiguous though — Bronstein could be evil or neutral, depending on the choices you make.
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It Came From The Internet / int_378039e	type	TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers
It Came From The Internet / int_378039e	comment	The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: The best cure of the Spyder virus turns out to be soup made of pig's knuckles, fish heads, sheep's eyeballs, Brussels sprouts, and computer chips. Wait, what's the last one again?
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It Came From The Internet / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
It Came From The Internet / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: The Spyder originates as a web program before coming to life, and now intends to infect all humans before helping computers take over the world. In several bad endings, he actually succeeds.
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It Came From The Internet / int_59673edd	type	Computer Virus
It Came From The Internet / int_59673edd	comment	Computer Virus: The Spyder, a web-crawler, originates as a sentient, hyper-intelligent virus before gaining a mind of it's own and invading your world through your computer.
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It Came From The Internet / int_5f185fbe	type	Digital Abomination
It Came From The Internet / int_5f185fbe	comment	Digital Abomination: Spyder, a living computer virus that manifests itself as a spider/octopus hybrid in the real world that leaves toxic slime all around. It bites the main character, causing them to have amnesia.
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It Came From The Internet / int_6563a3f2	type	Cyberspace
It Came From The Internet / int_6563a3f2	comment	Cyberspace: One of the sub-plots is set in there, after the Spyder drags you in. You'll need to obtain help from a hacker named Rachel to guide you along; lose her and you'll be stuck in cyberspace with no way out.
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It Came From The Internet / int_7064ec04	type	Cassette Futurism
It Came From The Internet / int_7064ec04	comment	Cassette Futurism: Having been published in 1999, the book has a very retrofuturistic description of virtual reality, just like people have dreamed of in the 1990s.
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It Came From The Internet / int_735e71c2	type	Recursive Canon
It Came From The Internet / int_735e71c2	comment	Recursive Canon: Your character apparently has multiple GYG books in their room, as seen on the front cover (on the right side next to the monitor). A poster depicting the cover of It's Only A Nightmare! is also visible behind the monitor.
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It Came From The Internet / int_76c72a08	type	SchrÃ¶dinger's Gun
It Came From The Internet / int_76c72a08	comment	Schrödinger's Gun: When you get infected by a computer virus, you can turn for help either to doctor Bronstein or to a hacker girl called Rachel. In one subplot, they genuinely want to help you, while in another they just want to use you for their evil purposes. In one more subplot, it turns out that the monster that infected you is not actually evil, and the virus can be cured with just a hot bath.
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It Came From The Internet / int_77538ed4	type	Admiring the Abomination
It Came From The Internet / int_77538ed4	comment	Admiring the Abomination: One of the endings sees you, alongside Rachel the hacker girl, capturing the Spyder alive and returning to reality. But then Rachel thinks the Spyder is cute and decides to adopt it.
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It Came From The Internet / int_962e6260	type	You Are Grounded!
It Came From The Internet / int_962e6260	comment	One of the (ambiguous) endings sees you destroying your computer in a last-ditch attempt at containing the Spyder. It works, but then your mother caught you destroying the computer she just bought you, at which point she declares You Are Grounded!... just as she suddenly hits her head and conveniently forgets everything, right up to the part about destroyed computers.
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It Came From The Internet / int_b3230549	type	419 Scam
It Came From The Internet / int_b3230549	comment	419 Scam: One ending has you getting a messaging saying the sender can help you win the lottery, if they what they say. Despite this being framed very much like one of these, this ending is presented as good.
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It Came From The Internet / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
It Came From The Internet / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: Defied; you can choose to leave cyberspace by ripping off your virtual reality goggles, but that will just trap you in cyberspace. Forever.
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It Came From The Internet / int_c930d83a	type	Octopoid Aliens
It Came From The Internet / int_c930d83a	comment	Octopoid Aliens: Variant, but the Spyder is an octopoid sentient virus monster.
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It Came From The Internet / int_c9580ee6	type	Hackette
It Came From The Internet / int_c9580ee6	comment	Hackette: You enlist the help of a hacker girl named Rachel to navigate the web and defeat the Spyder.
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It Came From The Internet / int_e0c470a1	type	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You
It Came From The Internet / int_e0c470a1	comment	The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You: The Spyder, for starters, escapes from the Internet and emerged using your computer's monitor as a portal to infect humans with a virus. There's also a bad ending where you accidentally let loose a virtual dog from the Internet who then comes out your monitor and devours you.
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It Came From The Internet / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
It Came From The Internet / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: The first of several side-effects from getting bitten by the crawler. You'll lose your memory at a rapid pace, either turning into an Empty Shell or devolving into another sentient virus. One of the (ambiguous) endings sees you destroying your computer in a last-ditch attempt at containing the Spyder. It works, but then your mother caught you destroying the computer she just bought you, at which point she declares You Are Grounded!... just as she suddenly hits her head and conveniently forgets everything, right up to the part about destroyed computers.
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