Poem of the week: E.J. Thribb on the internet

Private Eye’s perennial youthful house poet E.J. Thribb (17½) celebrates the WWW’s 25th birthday with this poem in the 31 March issue:

Lines on the birthday of the internet

Congratulations to

The World Wide Web

It is your 25th

Anniversary today.

Or so I read on

Wikipedia, so it

Probably isn’t true.

I would have

Double-checked in

A book bought on

The High Street,

But thanks to

You, that’s

Not possible.

                        E.J. Thribb

(73½, according to Wikipedia)