Certificate of DVS (Digital
Virtual Stirlingness)
(to the tune of: “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad”)
Keith’s been working at computers, all these live-long
years;
Keith’s been working at computers,
just to calm our online fears.
Can’t you hear the
Can’t you see his open-access-multi-user way?
User,
won’t you use, User, won’t you use,
User,
won’t you use our full-text stuff?
User,
won’t you use, User, won’t you use,
User-friendly info fluff?
Someone’s packin’ data for users,
Someone’s packin’ data, I
know-woh-woh-woh
Someone’s packin’ data for users,
Pushin’ through
the data flow.
See
– Dee – DVD – oh,
See
– Dee – DVD – oh - oh,
See
– Dee – DVD – oooooooh,
Pushin’ through
the data flow.
Keith, you’ve
both practiced and preached the gospel of bits and bytes.
Let’s see if I
learned the catechism correctly from you:
When creation started, a dropout geek,
Bill Gates,
Played
monopoly with a Microsoft most everybody hates.
For all our money, what exactly did we
get?
We
got a blackened screen
With just one blinking cursor, a
cursor colored green.
To get some information, you had to
know commands,
And thus began the rise of roaming
programming bands.
Still, it took them years to steal the
proper interface,
Which Apple had created much to
Microsoft’s disgrace.
Then, in proper time, along came the
great Al Gore
To first invent the Internet for
online shops and more.
So BYU converted, with a strong
cyber-conviction,
And the
Now when his wife says she’d like to own
a “nice green dress,”
He thinks that she is asking for her
own “IP address.”
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