In July 2009, I read about Google Wave and got pretty excited. I had also just discovered the genius of Dr. Seuss's poetry. The form to request an invite to Wave had a textarea saying "Write a message to the Google Wave team." So I did.
Too bad wave failed miserably. Perhaps another like it will come.
@jbenet, 2013-11-20
Good day, wondrous team of Google Wave!
I write today to congratulate, rant and rave,
about your phenomenal gift to mankind,
waiting to be released, to aid the mind!
Perspective! An account of the days of yore:
there was a day when a message was writ,
at flickering candle light, four months before
making it, to wide expectant eyes to read-it.
As you see, this was clearly not efficient,
But for thousands of years it was sufficient.
At last, one dark and stormy night, in 1837
Samuel Morse, through a wire wrote of heaven.
Things were better. STOP. For a while. STOP.
Write in London, instantly read in POTSdam. STOP.
Later, some ringing man made something squawk,
but no, let's not get off topic! (i know, I have a knack).
The written word then had some spatial innovation,
Tesla, Popov, and Marconi deserve reverential elation,
Thanks to them, one could write and send information,
Without a wire (through thin air!) from nation to nation!
And, with the Lukewarm War came one more thing,
A network of machines, wired together, having a fling.
The ARPANET was born, out of competition and scorn,
From a single link: UCLA - Stanford, then so traffic-worn!
Very fast, it started to grow!
UCSB, MIT, UUtah, and more.
Then Countries joined the flow,
And MILNET split from the core.
By '83: hundred nodes in the show,
And traffic increased so much more!
Parallel to the development of the net,
came a very important system app-let.
Many users shared computers to travail,
typing each other messages called email.
It was just like a letter,
But yet so much better!
In speed, a pacesetter;
In rain, not any wetter!
Not here? Don't fretter,
It finds you, forgetter!
So through the Net, email did fly,
revolutionizing the word, thereby.
Still, one problem escaped its boast:
one had a physical tie to each host!
Unnoticed, Luca Manuza wrote WebMail in perl.
'Twas Bhatia and Smith, and their Hotmail whirl,
Once frustrated and wanting to get past a firewall,
That changed the world: free web email for all!
It took the world by storm.
Until evil, in its ugly form,
bought it, to then transform,
into a painful, nasty worm!
To vanquish this horrible fate,
the heavens inspired Buchheit,
He made a cool toy,
Caribou, a joy,
that Google released not too late!
Yet Google has done it again!
Email is too bland to remain.
And thus comes the Wave,
the whole world to save!
In good time! Eureka! Amen!
Who knows what will happen next!
Maybe holograms instead of text!
But until then, Wave will reign,
I cannot wait! Calm I wont feign.
Alas, too much I have preached,
The End, we indeed have reached.
I do hope you enjoyed my tale
Of Google Wave, the new grail!
Cheers, Chevaliers!