gnu (01/18/83)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? (Usenet version) They used to tell me I was building a dream, And so I followed them all. Where there was mirth to read or flames to bear, I was always there, Right out on the job. They used to tell me I was building a dream, With peace and glory ahead, Why should I be standing in line, Just waiting for bread? Once I build a network, Made it run, Made it race against time. Once I built a network, Now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? Once I added power to the Sun, And a 780 we'd mime. Once I worked with power, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? Once with Arpa bucks, gee we looked fine, Ran with that yankee-doodly set. Half a million bits went slogging thru Bell, And I was a wizard on the net; Oh say, don't you remember? We shunned Pascal. It was C all the time. Say, don't you remember? I'm your pal... Brother, can you spare... a dime? new words by John Gilmore, Sun Microsystems