[net.bizarre] The creation of net.bizarre

sher@rochester.UUCP (David Sher) (08/05/85)

A bunch of us were in the terminal rooms and offices one night and all
of us got our programs to run simultaneously.  Naturally the machine
crashed (actually the entire local network, even the arpa net burped
momentarilly).  In the terminal room I met with 3 unix wizzards and an
advanced grad student who still doesn't understand virtual memory.  I
myself am an AI adept.  Someone suggested that we create a new
newsgroup while we waited for the machines to come up.  After some
discussion between the wizzards we decided to sit in a circle and
recite an incantation (I suggested waiting for a machine to
come up but they shouted me down with statements that meant "Don't be
absurd" but were less polite).

This is what we chose to recite in 5 part off key harmony:

Midnight Hacking, Network Hacking
Code aflying, bugs adying
Coke cans spinning, rogue games winning
inodes flying, kernals dying
let a new news group be, let there be one for all to see
let net.rec.drugs exist!

However the advanced grad student started to gigle uncontrollably
about halfway through so guess what we got instead.

-David Sher
sher@rochester
seismo!rochester!sher

I didn't write this, I didn't even think this!