[375] in Humor
our dear government
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (olegman@MIT.EDU)
Mon Jul 25 21:35:56 1994
From: olegman@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 94 21:30:44 EDT
Top Ten Reasons Why the White House Staff Likes the Internet
10. Surfing the Web is more fun than going to meetings.
9. Even reading old RFCs is more fun than going to meetings.
8. On the Internet, no one knows you're a bureaucrat.
7. It's how we get our daily marching orders from Vint Cerf, Tony Rutkowski, and
Dave Farber.
6. It's hard to write your X.400 address on a cocktail napkin.
5. We get all that great electronic fan mail on the Clipper Chip.
4. We have access to the Top Secret Air Force server with cool gifs of UFOs
and little green men.
3. We're still hoping to get on Carl Malamud's "Geek of the Week."
2. We love getting flamed by rabid libertarians on "com-priv."
AND THE NUMBER ONE REASOM WHY THE WHITE HOUSE STAFF LIKES THE INTERNET IS:
1. We can send e-mail FROM president@whitehouse.gov.
Credits: This list was provided by Tom Kalil, the David Letterman of the
Clinton/Gore administration. Kalil gave the closing keynote at
INET'94/JENC5 in Prague on Friday, June 17, and included this
list in his talk about NII efforts in the United States.
