The Haiku file was passed around like the grail in the 90's. I think I first found it on a telnet:// site. There's a line from it I still use: "Reflect. Repent. Reboot!"
Ah, here it is:
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/error-haiku.html
As good as that was, it's got nothing on the chicken file:
http://www.subgenius.com/bigfist/ans...n-Road_co.html
The 1995 date seems about right. My personal favorite is Faulkner's version...
Thanks,
Bill
Ps. Strike that last. My favorite now is Omar Khayyam's:
"I sent a hen through the astral plane
To learn our future, and man's luck,
And by and by the bird returned
But all she'd say was "Cluck, cluck, cluck!"