Computer History...

Something nice I found on Planet Gnome a few days ago:

 

In the beginning was the command line

The machines were full of null and void

And darkness covered the screens and the terminals

The fingers of the programmers moved upon the surface of the keyboards

And then Xerox said, Let there be mice: and there were mice

And Steve Jobs saw that the mice were good

He took the idea to the Lisa team, and later on to the Mac

They fancied themselves pirates, and even had a flag

Then Steve said, Let there be GUIs: and there were GUIs

And Bill Gates saw that the GUIs were good

DOS begat Windows and a new computing age was born

He licensed it to IBM and every other willing company

Then Bill said, Let there be a computer in every home

And there were computers in every home

And DARPA saw that the computers were good

They built & tested communication between UCLA and Stanford

Then DARPA said, let there be Internet: and there was Internet

And Tim Berners-Lee saw that the internet was good

He had the idea for linking documents and proposed hypertext

Then he connected it to TCP and domain name ideas

Then Tim said, let there be the web: and there was the web

And AltaVista saw that the web was good

The created a search engine and were bought by Yahoo

But along came a little startup named Google

Then Google said let there be PageRank: and there was PageRank

And all SEOs saw that the PageRank was good

Web 2.0 came along and Moore’s law was holding steadfast.

But a bubble was looming on the horizon

Then Steve looked at all that they had started

And he said, It is not good for Nokia to be alone

We shall make a competitor worthy of them

Then Steve said (again), Let there be iPhone: and there was iPhone

And Samsung saw that the iPhone was good

And the rest, as they say, is history