 It twas the net before Christmas, When all thru our house, Not a creature was typing, Nor moving a mouse, Our monitors hummed, & were glowing within, In hopes that Saint Nick would soon "modem" in. The teenagers were crashed in their bedrooms, And dreaming of boxes that made sonic booms; Mom back from aerobics, and done kissing me, We'd just settled in for some much needed "zzz's" When in the home office there arose such a din, I shot down the stairs! Had that fax just come in? Away to the keyboard, I leapt into my chair, Typed in my password... But no fax was there! My screen came alive, it was wildly aglow, The hard drive went crunching, the "1" & the "0", When what to my bifocalled eye should I see, But a brand new Web Browser, Not A T & T, From a server so rapid, (Not one on the slates), That I thought for a moment, "It must be Bill Gates!"  Incoming more Quickly than 14.4 fame, Screeching, now flashing, calling "Plug-Ins" by Name: "Now Java! Now Shockwave!, And Real Audio! On Webchat! On Quicktime! And 3VDO! To the World Wide Web system!! To the great hackers ball!! Now cache away!Cache away! Cache away all!! Beyond all the strengths of the new chips I see, This CPU giant brought power to me, And into my RAM a New Browser Sublime(!) Brimming with Programs, Saint Nick's on my Line! Then I, in a second, heard soundboarding in, Saint Nick's jolly laughter above all this din, I pulled back my hands, and fell out of my chair, In shock at the sight of Saint Nick standing there! Tho made up of pixels, He seemed very real, With clothing quite modern and full of appeal A bundle of CD'swere slung from his bag, He looked like an "X"er with middle-aged sag!  He wore cool sunglasses, his face was electric; His cheeks two Mac Apples, his nose neon pink! His handsome full lips were set in a grin; With a snow white Bohemian beard on his chin. With the butt of a Cuban lit up with a flair, I saw cyber smoke making rings in the air! He'd got that "hep" look, and acted so mellow; But his belly still shook, still a Jolly Old Fellow! Flashing peace signs to all, and nodding his head, Led me to think I had nothing to dread; He spoke not a wordbut went straight to the show!.. Left shiny new laptops, and then turned to go.. And laying his finger aside of the node, As quick as a wink, thru the monitor he flowed; He appeared on the screen,on the keys poked delete, And transported away, his mission complete! But I heard him exclaim, As the screen had turned white, "CYBER CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD BYTE!!"
~Author Unknown~
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