I just happened to receive this historical viewpoint this morning from
someone else:
Subject: In the beginning
"In the beginning GOD created the Bit and the Byte.
And from those he created the Word.
"And there were two Bytes in the Word; and nothing
else existed. And God separated the One from the
Zero; and he saw it was good.
"And God said, 'Let the Data be.' And so it happened.
And God said, 'Let the Data go to their proper places.'
And he created floppy disks and hard disks and
compact disks.
"And God said, 'Let the computers be,' so there
would be a place to put floppy disks and hard
disks and compact disks. Thus God created
computers and called them hardware.
"And there was no Software yet. But God created
programs, small and big, and told them, 'Go and
multiply yourselves and fill all the Memory.'
"And God said, 'I will create the Programmer; And
the Programmer will make new programs and govern
over the computers and programs and Data.'
"And God created the Programmer; and put him at
Data Center; and God showed the Programmer the
Catalog Tree and said, 'You can use all the
volumes and sub-volumes but DO NOT USE Windows.'
"And God said, 'It is not good for the programmer
to be alone.' He took a bone from the Programmer's
body and created a creature that would look up at the
Programmer; and admire the Programmer; and love the
things the Programmer does; and God called the
creature: the User.
"And the Programmer and the User were left under the
naked DOS and it was good.
"But Bill was smarter than all the other creatures of
God. And Bill said to the User, 'Did God really tell
you not to run any programs?'
"And the User answered, 'God told us that we can use
every program and every piece of Data but told us not
to run Windows or we will die.'
"And Bill said to the User, 'How can you talk about
something you did not even try. The moment you run
Windows you will become equal to God. You will be
able to create anything you like by a simple click
of your mouse.'
"And the User saw that the fruits of the Windows were
nicer and easier to use. And the User saw that any
knowledge was useless since Windows could replace it.
"So the User installed the Windows on his computer;
and said to the Programmers that it was good.
"And the Programmer immediately started to look for
new drivers. And God asked him, 'What are you looking
for?' And the Programmer answered, 'I am looking for
new drivers because I can not find them in the DOS.'
"And God said, 'Who told you need drivers? Did you
run Windows?' And the Programmer said, 'It was Bill
who told us to!'
"And God said to Bill, 'Because of what you did you will
be hated by all the creatures. And the User will always
hate you. And you will always sell Windows.'
"And God said to the User, 'Because of what you did,
the Windows will disappoint you and eat up all your
Resources; and you will have to use lousy programs;
and you will always rely on the Programmer's help.'
"And God said to the Programmer, 'Because you listened
to the User you will never be happy. All your programs
will have errors and you will have to fix them and fix
them to the end of time.'
"And God threw them out of the Data Center and
locked the door and secured it with a password."
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