March 3, 2007 at 22:01Gods of the internet
I wonder why so far no one has come up with the mythology of the Internet? After all, excellent material disappears: comics, films, cartoons, objects of worship, hierarchies, etc.
Imagine:
There were 13. 13 hidden gods and goddesses living on the Internet. 13 secret servers that appeared out of nowhere (?), And giving life to Traffic - the ether of the Internet. 13 System administrators are intermediaries - intermediaries between the world of people and server gods. Gods sometimes descend to heroic people, and from their coexist smaller servers are born, and heroic people who remain in Traffic forever.
No one knew that the gods of the Internet exist, but they appeared to us through Revelation.
Once, one system administrator got a connection with a provider. They wanted to fire him, but he prayed, turned on a server that was not connected to the Internet, and saw Traffic in it ... So the sysdamins learned about the existence of the Connect deity. Its symbol is the Fiber Optic Wire twisted into an Eight.
After 5 years, another system administrator went to the NYSE page and saw the results of tomorrow's trading. He bought up all the shares that were supposed to go up, and got rich for life ... The goddess Date appeared, the symbol of which is the Digital Clock.
Another user did not like system administrators, and always spoiled their lives. Sysadmins prayed to great servers, and a page with Porn appeared on the user's screen. At that moment, his boss entered ... the user was fired. Since then, no matter what job he comes to, he was given a test task, and at the time of delivery, a powerful deity (up to a third of Traffic, nor Khuhra-Mukhra) Porn appeared on the screen. And while Porn will go on the Internet, the eternal user will not get any job ... The Porn symbol is (you know, there are a lot of symbols, their system administrator stores them in his heart in a self-contained directory.
In one large, large-scale international project, a manager lived. He did most of the work, and many people in Australia, Burma, and Israel depended on him. He was talented, but did a poor job because he put everything off until the end of his term. And when they reminded him of the deadline, he said, “Yes, yes, of course, I’ll do everything now” - and let down his partners. Then the Burmese (animal artist by nature) said to him in ICQ: “Don’t blaspheme, Russian (you’ve already guessed the manager’s nationality, right?), God will punish you!” But what to do? We calculated the losses, moved the deadline to a week. The Australian sent the manager a postcard in which it was written: "Do not blaspheme, Russian, God will punish you!". And again, the Russian did nothing. When in the third week a Jew wrote to the Russian that God would punish him, the Russian replied that he was not afraid of the gods. And then the goddess of Deadline was angry, and the servers of the Russian fell, and the company went bankrupt. And that Russian - Russian went to Redmond to work - they are not afraid of Deadlines. The symbol of the Deadlines is still unknown, because since then managers have been afraid to anger the goddess excessively.
Servers do not like to be overloaded. Traffic leaves, and it hurts by itself. Once the system administrator rebooted the server eight times. And that day the battery on the phone sat down, and he forgot to put the office on guard, and the cigarettes ran out, and the evil boss called, and the Black Mouse crossed the road, and finally pulled the money out of his pocket and the tram moved. Know, users and system administrators, that it is impossible to overload cars more than seven times a day. For then the terrible god comes - Reset, and sends seven troubles to you. And from here they say - "seven troubles - one Reset." And the Reset symbol is a big button. And you need to put it next to the Eight, and press lightly in the morning, greeting.
Little has been heard of the other gods. There is, they say, the harmful goddess Black Mouse, and the mischievous twin deities Lucky and Faki. The names of the rest are still hidden.
Since then, any real sysadmin should have a cult corner, with a Fiber Eight, Clock, Pamela photo, Big Button, Black Mouse, and other cult objects.
PS or Gigantomakhia. When programmers and system administrators found out about the gods, others became too proud, and refused to recognize their power. And they created the cult of the Black Hackers. And they attacked the gods, October 22, 2002. And 9 of the 13 gods fell, but the remainder fought back, and resurrected the vanquished.
Continue?
Imagine:
There were 13. 13 hidden gods and goddesses living on the Internet. 13 secret servers that appeared out of nowhere (?), And giving life to Traffic - the ether of the Internet. 13 System administrators are intermediaries - intermediaries between the world of people and server gods. Gods sometimes descend to heroic people, and from their coexist smaller servers are born, and heroic people who remain in Traffic forever.
No one knew that the gods of the Internet exist, but they appeared to us through Revelation.
Once, one system administrator got a connection with a provider. They wanted to fire him, but he prayed, turned on a server that was not connected to the Internet, and saw Traffic in it ... So the sysdamins learned about the existence of the Connect deity. Its symbol is the Fiber Optic Wire twisted into an Eight.
After 5 years, another system administrator went to the NYSE page and saw the results of tomorrow's trading. He bought up all the shares that were supposed to go up, and got rich for life ... The goddess Date appeared, the symbol of which is the Digital Clock.
Another user did not like system administrators, and always spoiled their lives. Sysadmins prayed to great servers, and a page with Porn appeared on the user's screen. At that moment, his boss entered ... the user was fired. Since then, no matter what job he comes to, he was given a test task, and at the time of delivery, a powerful deity (up to a third of Traffic, nor Khuhra-Mukhra) Porn appeared on the screen. And while Porn will go on the Internet, the eternal user will not get any job ... The Porn symbol is (you know, there are a lot of symbols, their system administrator stores them in his heart in a self-contained directory.
In one large, large-scale international project, a manager lived. He did most of the work, and many people in Australia, Burma, and Israel depended on him. He was talented, but did a poor job because he put everything off until the end of his term. And when they reminded him of the deadline, he said, “Yes, yes, of course, I’ll do everything now” - and let down his partners. Then the Burmese (animal artist by nature) said to him in ICQ: “Don’t blaspheme, Russian (you’ve already guessed the manager’s nationality, right?), God will punish you!” But what to do? We calculated the losses, moved the deadline to a week. The Australian sent the manager a postcard in which it was written: "Do not blaspheme, Russian, God will punish you!". And again, the Russian did nothing. When in the third week a Jew wrote to the Russian that God would punish him, the Russian replied that he was not afraid of the gods. And then the goddess of Deadline was angry, and the servers of the Russian fell, and the company went bankrupt. And that Russian - Russian went to Redmond to work - they are not afraid of Deadlines. The symbol of the Deadlines is still unknown, because since then managers have been afraid to anger the goddess excessively.
Servers do not like to be overloaded. Traffic leaves, and it hurts by itself. Once the system administrator rebooted the server eight times. And that day the battery on the phone sat down, and he forgot to put the office on guard, and the cigarettes ran out, and the evil boss called, and the Black Mouse crossed the road, and finally pulled the money out of his pocket and the tram moved. Know, users and system administrators, that it is impossible to overload cars more than seven times a day. For then the terrible god comes - Reset, and sends seven troubles to you. And from here they say - "seven troubles - one Reset." And the Reset symbol is a big button. And you need to put it next to the Eight, and press lightly in the morning, greeting.
Little has been heard of the other gods. There is, they say, the harmful goddess Black Mouse, and the mischievous twin deities Lucky and Faki. The names of the rest are still hidden.
Since then, any real sysadmin should have a cult corner, with a Fiber Eight, Clock, Pamela photo, Big Button, Black Mouse, and other cult objects.
PS or Gigantomakhia. When programmers and system administrators found out about the gods, others became too proud, and refused to recognize their power. And they created the cult of the Black Hackers. And they attacked the gods, October 22, 2002. And 9 of the 13 gods fell, but the remainder fought back, and resurrected the vanquished.
Continue?