In the great Lawaris-Shomer Confligration of 2036 four billion people lost their lives and civilivation required another 3000 years to reach it's former glory. Historians have speculated for centuries as to the cause, but none has reliably been put forward. None the less, the persistant urbal legend that it grew form an Internet Forum persists. This is not without some foundation. Fragments of data tapes with Google cache and related surviving minutia contain tantelizing reference to a lawaris and a DaveShomer, as well as a sinister Red Dawn like the one that greated the world on that fateful Jan 2, 2036 morinng. Informed scholars and the intelligencia dismiss such theories as the palaver of the lunitic fringe. Serious people aren't likely to credit the death of billions to something so mundane. It is generally now recognized that the war had a greater purpose, but one now lost in the sands of time.