Threeplay from Sky, or, "holy f**k, it's 2007"
Profuse & humble apologies to Don McLean.

Note to the Judge: If you sentence me for crimes against music, please exile me to Siberia. Ta.

Warning: contains anachronisms, nostalgia, and dubious rhyme & meter.


A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that internet used to make me smile.
And I knew if I could start ed
The world might notice what I said
And, maybe, I’d be happy for a while.

But the Long September made me shiver
With every spam and phish delivered.
Bad news in the inbox;
I couldn’t start one more SOCKS...

I can’t remember if I knew
When I read about Wired's "Long Boom"
But something touched me deep inside
The day the Mosaic died.

So...

(Chorus)
Buy, buy, a threeplay package from Sky,
IE7 said "ActiveX", but it wouldn't say why.
And the comp. sci. undergrads all get exceptions with try(),
singin', "a stack trace, and my program has died"
"A stack trace, and my program has died!"

Did you read the RFCs,
And do you have faith in the W3C,
if the standards say you SHOULD?
Did you believe in Xanadu,
or did you just say "Theodor ... Holm Who?"
and can you tell me why my connection's ... real slow?


(More may follow)