"The Cuckoo's Egg" by Clifford Stoll
Date Submitted: 07/10/2003 02:36:05
Category: / Science & Technology / Computers and Cybernetics
Length: 7 pages (1923 words)
Category: / Science & Technology / Computers and Cybernetics
Length: 7 pages (1923 words)
'The Cuckoo's Egg' is a story of persistence, love for one's work and is just plain funny! The story starts out with Clifford Stoll being 'recycled' to a computer analyst/webmaster.
Cliff, as he is affectionately called, is a long-haired ex-hippie that works at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. He originally was an astronomer, but since his grant wore out, he became a mainframe master. He was glad that instead of throwing him out into the unemployment …
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…he did was a discovery that he stumbled on. From a 75cent accounting mishap to Tymnet to Virginia, to Germany. What a trace!
At the end of the story, poor Cliff was sobbing because he grew up!! L To him that was a disaster, but the wedding coming up, and his life officially beginning, he forgot it soon. Now he lives in Cambridge with his wife, Martha, and three cats that he pretends to dislike.
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