X-NEWS: spcvxb.spc.edu rec.humor.funny: 6816 Xref: spcuna rec.humor.funny:6816 Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny Organization: Kaizen Works, Inc. From: ct7@kaizen.net (W. Craig Trader) Subject: Humor: Home Page for Nothing Keywords: smirk, Internet Approved: funny-request@clari.net Path: spcuna!news.new-york.net!news1.netusa.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!fugue.clari.net!funny-request Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30 Sep 96 19:30:02 EDT Lines: 57 Tad Pierson sent this to me, I don't know who sent it to him ... --------------------------------------- Home Page for Nothing' --------------------- (To the tune of "Money for Nothing" by Dire Straits) Now look at them yo-yos, that's the way you do it You write the code that runs the WebTV That ain't workin', that's the way you do it Get yer home page for nothin' and your hits for free. Now that ain't workin', that's the way you do it Lemme tell ya, them guys can code Maybe get some backing 'fore they even have a product Maybe in a month they'll IPO. Custom config delivery We got to install all of these browsers They got to all speak HTTP. See that little doofus with the glasses and the cowlick? Yeah buddy, that's his own code. That little doofus got a billion options. That little doofus he just IPO'd. We got to install Netscape Web Servers Custom config delivery We got to install all of this fiber We gonna need a big ol' T3. I shoulda learned to code in Java I shoulda learned some CGI Look at that web page, they got it dancin' right across the screen. It almost looks alive. And what's he downloading now? Hawaiian noises? He's banging on that keyboard like a chimpanzee Aw, that ain't workin', that's the way you do it Get yer home page for nothin' and your hits for free. We got to install Netscape Web Servers Custom config delivery We got to install all of these proxies They got to all speak HTTP. Now that ain't workin', that's the way you do it You write the code that runs the WebTV That ain't workin', that's the way you do it Get yer home page for nothin' and your hits for free. Home page for nothin', Hits for free. -- Selected by Jim Griffith. MAIL your joke to funny@clari.net. Sponsored by ClariNet Communications Corp. (http://www.clari.net) If you post instead of mailing, it screws up the reply-address sometimes. Attribute the joke's source if at all possible. A Daemon will auto-reply.