$ whois -h whois.ripe.net POEM-RIPE55-SONG
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% Information related to 'POEM-RIPE55-SONG'

poem: POEM-RIPE55-SONG
form: FORM-PROSE
descr: At his first RIPE meeting, Gary wrote this and performed at
descr: the closing plenary. It was truly awesome.
descr: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0
descr:
text: A long long time ago
text: I can still remember
text: when my laptop could connect elsewhere.
text:
text: And I tell you all there was a day
text: the network card I threw away
text: had a purpose - and it worked for you and me.
text:
text: But 18 years completely wasted
text: with each address we've aggregated
text: the tables overflowing
text: the traffic just stopped flowing...
text:
text: And now we're bearing all the scars
text: and all my traceroutes showing stars.
text: The packets would travel faster in cars
text: the day the routers died.
[... continued ...]

Because I love oldies. Sad it is always true.

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