{"id":837,"date":"2014-12-25T00:49:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T22:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/fun\/?p=837"},"modified":"2014-12-25T00:49:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T22:49:55","slug":"hacker-tarot-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=837","title":{"rendered":"Hacker Tarot Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"

  • The Fool
    \na manager using a SPARCStation 413,1432 to run a screensaver.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The Magician
    \na hacker with a Mac, a Pentium box, a Sparc, and a Cray on the table in front of him — all running the same program with the same GUI. An infinity sign is over his head.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The High Priestess
    \na woman holding the Documentation, closed and concealed. The crescent moon is showing on an Indigo behind her.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The Emperor
    \nSteve Jobs sitting on a NeXT cube, holding an optical disk vertically in his hand.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The Empress
    \nA secretary with a NeXT Machine.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The Hierophant
    \nBill Gates with two flunkies kneeling before him, their faces averted, offering him floppy disks. He wears a laptop computer on his head.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The Lovers
    \na PowerMAC and an IBM Power PC exchanging software as an angel bathed in glory regards them.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The Chariot
    \nA man in a chariot, hurtling up an exponential curve, drawn by the twin sphinxes of Technology (black) and Culture (white).<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • Strength
    \nA woman holding the entire design and implementation of Microsoft Excel in her mind as she corrects the final error. An infinity sign is over her head.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The Hermit
    \nAn old hacker, white-bearded, burns the midnight oil; its Star-of-David flame illuminates his keyboard.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The Wheel of Fortune
    \nA rotating wheel. Cray is on the side going down, despite its good technology; Smalltalk is opposite it, and C++ is sitting on top. Four winged beings — a mouse, a turtle, a dog-cow, and a human — look on.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • Justice
    \nA cold-faced woman holds a calculator in one hand and a delete- key in the other.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The Hanged Man
    \nA programmer is tied by his ankle to a cable duct. His phase is completely shifted: he awakens at sunset, he sleeps at dawn. His monitor is reverse-video. He programs on, flawlessly, oblivious to his circumstances.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • Death
    \nA skeleton weilding a scythe surveys a field, on which are scattered PDP-11s, Apple ][‘s, IBM 360\/91’s, Xerox Alto’s, and many other machines.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • Temperance
    \nAn angel stands with one foot on her chair and one on the floor, as she copies files from one disk to another. A cursor blinks from her chest.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The Devil
    \nThe goat-headed Lord of the Pit stands on a pile of Windows manuals, holding an inverted torch in one hand. Two humans, male and female, are in chains at his feet.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The Tower
    \nAn ivory tower is struck by a bolt of lightning. Two robed figures, denied tenure, are hurled to the ground.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The Star
    \nA Mac is running its `warp’ screen saver, in a transient fragile moment of peace.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The Moon
    \nA wolf and a jackal are typing at two PC’s. A crayfish crawls out of a pool, offering suggestions that may ultimately prove deadly. The moon shines through a window.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The Sun
    \nA naked child riding a winged rocking horse programs clever applications on a high-quality workstation.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • Judgement
    \nAn angel blows a trumpet; all over the net, web pages arise, to be rated Cool or not.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n

  • The World
    \nA woman dances on the clouds, unclothed, unencumbered, in a ring of clouds, a 3-d mouse in each hand. The four winged beings from the Wheel of Fortune surround her.<\/li>\n<\/p>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Fool a manager using a SPARCStation 413,1432 to run a screensaver. The Magician a hacker with a Mac, a Pentium box, a Sparc, and a Cray on the table in front of him — all running the same program with the same GUI. An infinity sign is over his head. The High Priestess a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[406,756,1401],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-computer","tag-hacker","tag-tarot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837","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=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}