Autor: Gregorio Kus (Grego_at_RMnet.it)
Data: Sat 22 Feb 1997 - 16:49:39 MET
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From: kwc_at_world.std.com (Kenneth W Cochran)
To: philt3r_at_juno.com
Subject: History Of The Net
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 01:18:30 -0500
Message-ID: <199702160618.AA24442_at_world.std.com>
History Of The Net
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First there was God. He was quite lonely so he created
Dennis.
Dennis was unimpressed with God.
So,... God created Brian.
But, Brian got bored with God.
So Brian and Dennis started playing, and they created C. God
saw C, and saw that it was good. So he decided to let Brian
and Dennis play some more.
Then Brian and Dennis created Unix. God saw Unix, and he was
jealous. So he created Bill to torment Brian and Dennis and
obscure their creation (for God could not destroy Unix, for
he secretly admired its perfection).
So Bill created Microsoft. And Microsoft created Windows.
And God saw that it was bad, but it had market share, so he
was happy. Then Bill got cocky, and his ego got bigger than
God's. So to knock Bill down a couple of pegs, God put into
effect a wondrous plan.
First God created Tim. And Tim created the World Wide Web
(using Unix, of course). This was good, but not THAT good.
So God created Marc. Marc created Mosaic (using Unix, of
course). Mosaic created a huge feeding frenzy that has got a
lot of people who are reading this at their jobs.
But that's a different story. Mosaic was good, and God saw
it was good, so he allowed Marc to start Netscape. Back to
this later.
But all this time Brian and Dennis started to make something
better than Unix called Plan 9 (because God was successful
in foiling Brian and Dennis' previous seven plans [there was
no Plan 8 because Brian and Dennis pulled the wool over
God's eyes and just jumped to Plan 9, which was too bright a
move for even God to figure out.] )
Eventually, God figured out how to create Larry.
No one knows how or why he created Larry, except perhaps to
reduce productivity at the Jet Propulsion Labs at NASA.
[Rumors are that God created Larry because he secretly liked
what Dennis and Brian had done with C, but didn't think C
and Unix was enough -- this probably isn't true because God
believed he had destroyed Brian and Dennis' plans by
destroying Plans 1-7, and by creating Microsoft to slay
their beloved Unix.
Anyhow, Larry created Perl (using Unix and C, of course),
and God saw it was good, so he made Randal. Larry and Randal
wrote books about Perl. And everyone saw that this was good,
except snobs who were too much into C, Windows, and Intel.
(It so happens that Randal was so cool he figured out a way
to break into Unix at Intel, and Intel sued him for it but
that's another story also -- chances are Randal would not
have been able to break into *Plan 9* at Intel, but Intel
isn't cool enough to be running Plan 9)
Anyhow, back to Randal. So Randal and Larry wrote books, but
they had to be nice because of the people they worked for.
So then came Tom. But back to Tom later.
Anyhow, God saw Netscape (made using Unix and C, of course),
and he saw it was good, and that annoyed Bill quite a bit.
And that made Him very happy, and made Marc very rich. But
Bill was very very rich. But that's a *completely*
different story.
But as good as Larry's creation, Perl, was, it couldn't do
everything, so God created Scott. Scott announced Java, and
this was big news. Now Java really pissed Bill off, because
Bill also created Blackbird, and Java killed Blackbird. This
was bad because killing Blackbird also meant killing the
Microsoft Network. And many rejoiced over that, but that, too
is another story.
Now Java, obviously had done much to annoy Bill. For Java
was so good that Bill had to license Java. All this time,
Scott poked lots of fun at Bill because Sun, which was where
Scott worked, made a better OS, derived -- of course -- from
Unix, which was better than Bill's and Microsoft's Windows.
Anyhow, even God's creations Steve and Steve who created
Apple couldn't make Bill license the much superior MacOS.
But finally, Bill had to license Java. So justice was
served, and Bill's ego was served him on a platter for him
to eat his words. Or something. That part is unclear.
So by this time Windows and Microsoft and Bill in general
really sucked. Especially considering the advantages that
Brian and Dennis' C and Unix, running Marc's Netscape and
Mosaic over Tim's World Wide Web, doing cool CGI stuff with
Larry's Perl, which you learned from Randal and Tom, and got
to program with Scott's Java.
And God realized he had put Bill down too far. So then God
made it so that Marc's Netscape and Mosaic could run on
Windows. We already know that Bill had to license Java from
Scott. We know that Bill missed the boat for not beating Tim
to the punch on the World Wide Web. The last straw was for
God to make it possible for Larry's Perl to run on Bill's
Windows.
So back to Tom. Tom was a Perl God. And God didn't like
this, but Tom's a God so there isn't much God could do, so
He couldn't stop Tom from saying things like "install an
operating system on your poor lonely computer the way God
and Dennis intended", and "Espousing the eponymous
/cgi-bin/perl.exe?FMH.pl execution model is like reading a
suicide note -- three days too late."
The moral to the story? God is fickle. That's why Microsoft
and Bill and Windows exists. Do what God intended, install
C, Unix, Mosaic/Netscape, Java, and Perl on your system, and
make Brian, Dennis, Larry, Tim, Tom, Randal, Scott, and even
Steve and Steve, I'm sure, happy by doing so.
Oh yeah, Linus was cool too. He's the guy you thank for
being able to run all the cool stuff on your crappy little
Pee Cee.
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