You had

headed out to find that important bit of information. You'd searched for it all day at the office, and well into the night. Exhausted from your efforts, you turned your browser around and headed back down the Information Highway towards home. You were about to drowse off when suddenly, a beast unlike any you had seen before leaped onto the road in front of you. You clicked and missed it, a good thing, something that big would have filled your hard disk in no time. You went skittering across the web, and crashed into an immovable pile of heritage code. Your browser was a complete loss, COBOL drippings from the ancient application dissolved it into random and meaningless sequences of assembly code. Limping from your injuries you saw a light in the distance.

You saw a fleeting glimpse of a cloaked and hooded figure, leaning on a staff and carrying a lantern heading off into the darkness. You panic as the light flickered and vanished. You start to run, shouting, "No, don't leave me here, take me with you, help me please!" Left without options, you chase after the figure into the woods, unheeding of what might lie ahead.