{"id":2437,"date":"2015-01-09T22:08:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T20:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2015-01-09T22:08:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T20:08:19","slug":"millenium-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=2437","title":{"rendered":"Millennium Pie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A long, long time ago…
\nI can still remember how
\nComputers used to make me smile.
\nAnd I knew if I had my chance,
\nThat I could make electrons dance,
\nAnd maybe I’d be happy for a while.<\/p>\n

But January made me shiver,
\nit chilled me deep down in my liver,
\nBad news I’d collected…
\nI couldn’t get connected.<\/p>\n

I can’t remember back that day
\nWhen I first learned of Y2K
\nBut something touched me anyway,
\nThe day computers died.<\/p>\n

So, …Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi
\nRan my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry
\nAnd good ol’ boys were sending e-mail replies
\nSaying this will be the day I retire
\nthis will be the day I retire<\/p>\n

Can you write in C plus plus?
\nAnd do you have faith in your local bus
\nIf the driver tells you so?
\nDo you believe in Compaq’s goals
\nCan software save your mortal soul
\nAnd can you teach me how to type real slow?<\/p>\n

Well I thought that you were prepared
\n‘Cause your memo said you weren’t impaired
\nYour stationery’s swell
\nBut you can go to hell<\/p>\n

I was a lonely teenage Unix hack
\nWith an incantation and a modem jack
\nbut I knew the cat had left the sack
\nThe day computers died I started singin’…<\/p>\n

Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi
\nRan my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry
\nAnd good ol’ boys were sending e-mail replies
\nSaying this will be the day I retire
\nthis will be the day I retire<\/p>\n

Now for 10 years we’ve ignored the threat
\nAnd we haven’t solved the problem yet
\nBut that’s not how it used to be<\/p>\n

When the luddites read for the king and queen
\nwith a light they filled with kerosene
\nAnd some manuals they stole from you and me
\nAnd while Bill Gates was looking pleased
\nTime stole his monopolies
\nThe courtroom was adjourned
\nNo verdict was returned<\/p>\n

While Apple tried a color scheme
\nThe engineers returned to steam
\nAnd we had purges of their dreams
\nThe day computers died We were singin’<\/p>\n

Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi
\nRan my PC on some DC but the voltage was dry
\nAnd good ol’ boys were sending e-mail replies
\nSaying this will be the day I retire
\nthis will be the day I retire<\/p>\n

Intel inside in an iron smelter
\nThe food leftover from my fallout shelter
\nTwinkies old and aging fast
\nI’d rather eat the grass
\nQ and A tried for a system crash
\nWith the tester on the sidelines in a cast
\nNow the timeshare net was running Doom
\nWhile mainframes played a marching tune
\nWe all tried to log in
\nOh, but we never could begin<\/p>\n

‘Cause Cobol tried to take the field,
\nAnd Holerith refused to yield.
\nDo you recall what was revealed,
\nThe day computers died?<\/p>\n

We started singing Bye, bye to the next digit of Pi
\nRan my PC on some DC but the voltage was…..
\n01110000100101001011000100010111000110100101…….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1337,1553],"class_list":["post-2437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-song","tag-y2k"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}