At 01:48 AM 2/6/96 -0800, Dave Del Torto wrote:
1996-02-06 PGP-Y
Our paranormal testing program has already had one commercial spin-off. Our engineers have developed a truly foolproof data security protocol. It is called PGP-Y -- "Pretty Good Parasychology." The mechanism is simple. You imagine that you have transmitted data to someone; that person then imagines that he has received it. Using PGP-Y, any type of information can be transmitted over the Internet with complete security. The key is that the data is transmitted high over the net -- so high that the data actually travels above the net rather than within it. The data is transmitted telepathically (and for those who distrust electronic funds, we also have a scheme for transmitting cash and gold plate telekinetically.)
There were a number of times where I had to explain to users that the "T" in TCP/IP did not stand for "Telepathic". (Glad I am not doing that anymore... I would expect calls from people looking for that version. And when we would support it...) Alan Olsen -- alano@teleport.com -- Contract Web Design & Instruction `finger -l alano@teleport.com` for PGP 2.6.2 key http://www.teleport.com/~alano/ Is the operating system half NT or half full?