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Network Working Group Request for Comments: 1300

S. Greenfield Ziff-Davis February 1992

Remembrances of Things Past

Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Discussion When Shannon was a river and Turing was a car When Banyan was a tree and buses travelled far

dBase was where you ran to after you hit the ball Often we were ANSI RISC aversive not at all

Windows were for looking out of in a Tandem, two could take a spin Bridges were for crossing a frame was to keep pictures in

A semi-conductor not in the big A port you sought fishermen used

was a maestro time yet in a storm a net

Woody Guthrie sang of "My LAN" WAN was a despairing mood LATAs were for high places menus featured food

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February 1992

If a cursor a sensor The sight of was sure

used four cut them a mouse to raise

letter words out in an office a shout

Haloid perfected photocopying and thereby made a hoard Then came Japanese competition and its "ox" was gored

Frequency was measured in cycles Hertz referred to multiple pain Modem was a harvesting command for bringing in the grain

Modelling was bauds were Prompting was contesting

at fashion shows ladies of the night helping actors for resources, a fight

Walking and chewing gum concurrently requires considerable skill We called it multi-tasking and by gosh we always will

We had no electronic calculators just slide rules by Keuffel & Esser I am still a true believer Keufel & Esser war besser

Chips were used for gambling von Neuman was a pup Monte Carlo a place to visit squaring the circle ... well, we gave up

A Sprint was less than 880 a relay was a team Greene was just a color breaking up AT&T a dream

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Coherent was applied to not a spectral line Multi-media meant prose and Noel Coward was

speech excited and song knighted

Cerf was found at the beach a Rose was a Rose was a Rose Jobs were to look for and Gates were to close

"2B" was an and "D" a A router was a server

elementary school class failing grade a tool was a maid

Lotus was a flower adobe was a brick Postscript was an afterthought joy a popsicle stick

We called a plotter a CAD a token ring a sham A buffer was for buffing a male goat was a ram

The best noise supressor was ... ssh we knew little of egos and ids For archival storage and encryption we looked to the pyramids

Now in accordance with Greenfield's Law in voice both loud and clear Here's to exponential growth in memory & operating speed next year. --srg

Greenfield

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Remembrances of Things Past

February 1992

Security Considerations Security issues are not discussed in this memo. Author's Address Stanley R. Greenfield Ziff-Davis One Park Avenue New York, NY 10016 EMail: 0004689513@mcimail.com

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