Token Ring Network Manifesto Attracts Little Interest from IT Industry

April Fool's Day Archive:

A recently leaked manifesto proclaiming to set forth "self-evident, immutable" principles for Token Ring Networks has elicited scant interest from IT industry press and analysts. The six-page document, watermarked with what appears to be the remnants of a frothy coffee drink, points out that networks have become essential for business, that businesses ought to be able to count on cables that are firmly attached to sockets, and network drivers really ought to be kept up to date.

Unlike the bolder, declamatory manifestos of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which called for the casting off of chains and the purification of society, this manifesto strikes a conciliatory tone, offering to "begin a conversation, not define it."

A copy of the manifesto was recently found lying on a table at the Church Street Starbucks in Cambridge, MA. Whether the document had been left there as part of a guerilla marketing campaign or simply out of a lack of interest on the part of a bored reader, was impossible to say.

Starbucks photo by dichohecho, some rights reserved.