Come gather round people wherever you roam,
And accept that the networks around you have grown,
And admit it that piracy you don't condone,
If your data to you is worth saving
Then you better make backups
On your old PC clones
For the times they are a-changin'.
Come students and staffers who click with your mice,
And keep your eyes open - your screen savers look nice,
And don't blame network downtime on poltergeists,
The new copy of WORD just delivered,
Takes 2 dozen diskettes and needs 40 megabytes,
Cos' the times they are a-changin'.
Come administrators, please read your e-mail,
It's been there for months now and it's gettin stale,
Our attempts to get more disk space from ADP have failed,
The battle on campus is ragin',
Whether we will use Windows or Macs will prevail,
Yeah the times they are a-changin'.
Come users and sysadmins all over the LAN,
Your bandwidth requirements we don't understand
Your digital desktops and cryptic commands,
Your multimedia stations,
Were not in the budget of our five year plan
But the times they are a-changin'.
With Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI,
We've got the best network that money can buy,
With Internet access and registration on-line,
But yesterday when he was cleaning
The janitor unplugged the power and all systems died,
Oh the times they are a-changin'.
Original author:Bob Dylan.
Author of amended version unknown.