{"id":613,"date":"2022-02-14T09:09:59","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T09:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/?p=613"},"modified":"2022-02-14T09:10:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T09:10:30","slug":"a-computer-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/2022\/02\/14\/a-computer-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"A computer poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many moons ago, more than I care to remember, when I was at University.  One of my computer literate colleagues spent a lot of time with the Uni&#8217;s DEC VAX 8650, which was connected to JANET, or the Joint Academic Network.  This was part of what would become the &#8220;Internet&#8221;.  One day he mailed us a &#8220;Computer Poem&#8221; that &#8220;He had found on the net&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I found myself thinking about this and a quick search later I had it.  So for my trip down memory lane, here is it, with its translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&lt; > ! * &#8216; &#8216; #<br>^ &#8221; ` $ $ &#8211;<br>! * = @ $ _<br>% * &lt; > ~ # 4<br>&amp; [ ] . . \/<br>| { , , SYSTEM HALTED<\/p><cite>Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poem can only be appreciated by reading it aloud, as such:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,<br>Caret quote back-tick dollar dollar dash,<br>Bang splat equal at dollar under-score,<br>Percent splat waka waka tilde number four,<br>Ampersand bracket bracket dot dot slash,<br>Vertical-bar curly-bracket comma comma CRASH!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many moons ago, more than I care to remember, when I was at University. One of my computer literate colleagues spent a lot of time with the Uni&#8217;s DEC VAX 8650, which was connected to JANET, or the Joint Academic Network. This was part of what would become the &#8220;Internet&#8221;. One day he mailed us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darmain.co.uk\/darmainworld\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}