the rise of VMs removed one of the more social aspects of computing: having to play internal politics with everyone else sharing the same remote server, through the local chat and message systems and also pranks and traps
they paved userland
and put up a public cloud
with an API, a console
and no sharing allowed
don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what you've got
til it's gone
they paved userland
and put up a public cloud
they took all the disks
put 'em in a disk host service
and they charged the people
a dollar for a gig to reserve it
{chorus}
hey admin admin
put away that VM host now
give me messed-up permissions
but leave me my friends' nethack ghosts
oh!
{chorus}
late last year
i fell for a startup's scam
and a big hypervisor
took away my old LAN
{chorus}
