Rough draft poem: Document, what art thou?
I am the Data
Container, Disseminator, and Canvas.
I came to be when the cognitive skills of mankind deemed oral
history inadequate.
I am transcendent, I take many forms, but my core purpose is
constant - Container, Disseminator, and Canvas.
I am dexterous, so I can be blank, partitioned horizontally,
horizontally and vertically, and if you get moi excited and I'll
show you fractals.
I am accessible in a number of ways, across a plethora of
media.
I am loose, so you can access my content too.
I am loose in a cool way, so you can refer to moi independent of my
content.
I am cool in a loose way, so you can refer to my content
independent of moi.
I am even cool and loose enough to let you figure out stuff from my
content including how its totally distinct from moi.
But...
I am possessive about my coolness, so all Containment,
Dissemination, and Canvas requirements must first call upon moi,
wherever I might be.
So...
If you postulate about my demise or irrelevance, across any medium,
I will punish you with confusion!
Remember...
I just told you who I am.
Lesson to be learned..
When something tells you what it is, and it is as powerful as I,
best you believe it.
BTW -- I am Okay with HTTP response code 200 OK :-)