RFC 1300 Remembrances of Things Past February 1992 If a cursor used four letter words a sensor cut them out The sight of a mouse in an office was sure to raise a shout Haloid perfected photocopying and thereby made a hoard Then came Japanese competition and its "ox" was gored Frequency was measured in cycles Hertz referred to multiple pain Modem was a harvesting command for bringing in the grain Modelling was at fashion shows bauds were ladies of the night Prompting was helping actors contesting for resources, a fight Walking and chewing gum concurrently requires considerable skill We called it multi-tasking and by gosh we always will We had no electronic calculators just slide rules by Keuffel & Esser I am still a true believer Keufel & Esser war besser Chips were used for gambling von Neuman was a pup Monte Carlo a place to visit squaring the circle ... well, we gave up A Sprint was less than 880 a relay was a team Greene was just a color breaking up AT&T a dream Greenfield