PRESENTS






The first email was sent by Ray Tomlinson (a computer scientist from Amsterdam, New York) to himself in 1971.





PATRIOTIC



















Audio recordings from the Library of Congress.









































ne morning a blind bunny was hopping down a country trail, and he tripped over a large snake and fell, Ker-Plop!, right on his twitchy little nose.

"Oh, please excuse me!" said the bunny. "I didn't mean to trip over you, but I'm blind and can't see."

"That's perfectly all right," replied the snake. "To be sure, it was my fault. I didn't mean to trip you, but I'm blind too, and I didn't see you coming. By the way, what kind of animal are you?"

"Well, I really don't know," said the bunny. "I'm blind, and I've never seen myself. Maybe you could examine me and find out."

So the snake felt the bunny all over, and he said, "Well, you're soft, and cuddly, and you have long silky ears, and a little fluffy tail and a dear twitchy little nose ... you must be a bunny rabbit!"

Then the bunny said, "I can't thank you enough, but by the way, what kind of animal are you?"

And the snake replied that he didn't know, and the bunny agreed to examine him.

When he was finished, the snake said, "Well, what kind of an animal am I?"

So the bunny felt the snake all over, and he replied, "You're hard, you're cold, you're slimy and you haven't got any balls ... you must be a politician!"
















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