Plagiarized Poem – Why Computers Sometimes Crash! by Dr. Seuss
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The claim
An amusing poem about computing that has circulated widely online and via email is attributed to American writer, Dr Seuss.
You must read this out LOUD!!!Why Computers Sometimes Crash! by Dr. Seuss.
(Read this to yourself aloud – it’s great!)If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
[ Remaining verses removed: The verse above and the verses that I have removed from this example were stolen from a longer poem by Gene Ziegler – See analysis below for details. ]
Well, that certainly clears things up for me. How about you?
Thank you, Bill Gates, for bringing all this into our lives
What the fact-checkers found
This story was first published on 16th June 2006
The poem was actually written by Gene Ziegler, not Dr. Seuss and is an abridged and plagiarized version of the original.
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