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Who Says Server Architectures Can’t Be Funny?June 20th, 2005 by Hans Bjordahl :: see related comic |
You know, anyone can do a gag about airline food (and I’ve done a few), but a comic about server architectures? It’s a little more challenging. (The one above can also be found in the premiere issue of TechNet Magazine.) And yet, it’s one of my favorite Bug Bashes so far, because sometimes the server really is behaving as though the only thing inside the case were a rhesus monkey and a “Simon.”
It reminds me of the time I was commissioned by the inimitable Evi Nemeth to do a T-shirt design lambasting Asynchronous Transfer Mode. It was for a scholarship fundraiser, and the resulting cartoon detailed the inner workings of ATM in a very Rube-Goldberg kind of way. Shockingly, some people even bought and wore the T-shirts around the University of Colorado campus, which, to be perfectly frank, probably didn’t increase their chances of getting laid.
Technology can be a funny thing. It’s one of the things I love about it. 
The ATM-bashing t-shirt was pretty damn funny. You don’t have a digital copy of it still laying around, do you? If so, you should post a link to it. It was a classic Hans Bjordahl.
Bryan
You could run webservers on everything there except for the monkey. And even that’d work if you just ripped the microcontroller out the toy he’s playing with and attached a SLIP connection to it.
Oh sure, you’d hardly get much in the way of dynamic content, but they’d still be webservers dammit!
I love my ATM tee shirt - Misapplying tomorrow’s technology today. That is the tee-shirt you are refering too isn’t it.
I remember U of Colorado used to sell several styles of tee-shirts at various IETF meetings. I still have my OSI 9 layer network stack tee-shirt that gets worn on many inapproprite occations.
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