RFC 527

RFC 527: ARPAWOCKY 🦋

Okay bestie, this one's from R. Merryman at UCSD-CC, dated 6/22/73 💖. It's a Network Working Group doc, and the poem is signed off by D.L. COVILL in May 1973 🎀. There's no category, obsoletes, or updates listed in the title block, so nothing to report there 💅.

It was lowkey chaotic, and the Protocols Were vibing USER-SERVER in the wabe. 💅 Everything was mimsey, the FTP, And the RJE was outgrabe. 🙈

Beware the ARPANET, bestie, fr 🌈 The bits that byte, the heads that scratch. 💀 Beware the NCP, and just avoid The frumious system patch. ✨

He grabbed his coding pad and went full focus 📝 The Echo-plex he hunted for, forever 🔍 When his HOST-to-IMP started limping 😭 He paused and got real deep in thought 🧠

And while he sat there, deep in his bag, the ARPANET, all IMPish and extra, sent packets down conditioned lines and double-checked them on the way 💖

One-two, one-two, all the way through the IMP-to-IMP was ACK and NACK 🫶 When the RFNM dropped, he said "I'm game" 🔥 and fired the answer right back 😤

So did you finally join the ARPANET?? 👑 Come here, my broke little bestie 😭 Quick, call the NIC! Send the RFCs! He was cackling in pure joy 🌸

It was lowkey chaotic, and the Protocols Were vibing USER-SERVER in the wabe. Everything was mimsey, the FTP, And the RJE was outgrabe.

— D.L. COVILL, May 1973 💜