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Anyone seen the Y2K song?
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16/10/1999 00:46:13
 
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Visual FoxPro
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00276791
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Wow!!! Awesome!! I love it! As good as Weird Al's Star Wars tribute set to the same tune ...

>(To the tune of American Pie,
>with apologies to Don McLean)
>
>A long, long time ago... I can still remember how
>Computers used to make me smile.
>And I knew if I had my chance,
>That I could make electrons dance,
>And maybe I’d be happy for a while.
>
>But January made me shiver,
>it chilled me deep down in my liver,
>Bad news I’d collected...
>I couldn’t get connected.
>I can’t remember back that day
>When I first knew the Y2K
>But something touched me anyway,
>The day computers died.
>
>So, ...Bye, bye to a digit of Pi
>Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry
>And good ol’ boys were sending e-mail replies
>Saying this will be the day I retire
>this will be the day I retire
>
>Can you write in C plus plus ?
>And do you have faith in your local bus
>If the driver tells you so?
>Do you believe in Compaq’s goals
>Can software save your mortal soul
>And can you teach me how to type real slow ?
>
>Well I thought that you were prepared
>’Cause your memo said you weren’t impaired
>Your stationery’s swell
>But you can go to hell
>I was a lonely teenage Unix hack
>With an incantation and a modem jack
>but I knew the cat had left the sack
>The day computers died
>
>I started singin’...
>Bye, bye to a digit of Pi
>Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry
>And good ol’ boys were sending e-mail replies
>Saying this will be the day I retire
>this will be the day I retire
>
>Now for 10 years we’ve ignored the threat
>And we haven’t solved the problem yet
>But that’s not how it used to be
>When the luddites read for the king and queen
>with a light they filled with kerosene
>And some manuals they stole from you and me
>And while Bill Gates was looking pleased
>Time stole his monopolies
>The courtroom was adjourned
>No verdict was returned
>While Apple tried a color scheme
>The engineers returned to steam
>And we had purges of their dreams
>The day computers died
>
>We were singin’ ...
>Bye, bye to a digit of Pi
>Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry
>And good ol’ boys were sending e-mail replies
>Saying this will be the day I retire
>this will be the day I retire
>
>Intel inside in an iron smelter
>The food leftover from my fallout shelter
>Twinkies old and aging fast
>I’d rather eat the grass
>Q and A tried for a system crash
>With the tester on the sidelines in a cast
>Now the timeshare net was running Doom
>While mainframes played a marching tune
>
>We all tried to log in
>Oh, but we never could begin
>’Cause Cobol tried to take the field,
>And Holerith refused to yield.
>Do you recall what was revealed,
>The day computers died?
>
>We started singing...
>Bye, bye to a digit of Pi
>Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry
>And good ol’ boys were sending e-mail replies
>Saying this will be the day I retire
>this will be the day I retire
>
>There we were all in a state
>A generation - really late
>With no time left to start again
>So come on mouse be nimble, mouse be quick
>Don’t let my spreadsheet data stick
>’Cause data is the devil’s only friend.
>
>As I watched him on my screen
>My hands and face were drenched in steam
>No angel born in hell
>Could run that stupid shell
>And as the ball climbed high into the night
>To call the sacrificial night
>
>I saw Dick Clark laughing with delight
>the day computers died.
>
>I met a girl with a cell phone
>And I asked her for a dial tone
>But she just smiled and turned away
>I went down to the software store
>Where I’d seen computers years before
>But the man there said the games there wouldn’t play
>
>And in the streets the children screamed
>The lovers cried and the poets dreamed
>their interface was spoken
>The Internet was broken
>And the three things I connect to most>
>The Website, Lan and the Network host
>Every single one was toast
>The day computers died
>
>They were singin’...
>Bye, bye to a digit of Pi
>Ran my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry
>And good ol’ boys were sending e-mail replies
>Saying this will be the day I retire
>this will be the day I retire
Bonnie Berent DeWitt
NET/C# MVP since 2003

http://geek-goddess-bonnie.blogspot.com
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