Life back then wasn't so different

Was good to see this one again, this time in the pages of Eric Steven Raymond's The Art of Unix Programming.

It's a well-known fact that computing devices such as the abacus were invented thousands of years ago. But it's not well known that the first use of a common computer protocol occurred in the Old Testament. This, of course, was when Moses aborted the Egyptians' process with a control-sea.

-- Tom Galloway, rec.arts.comics, February 1992