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This can also be found distributed with Emacs.

... Along with a bunch of other jokes, most of them making fun of Emacs. It's been there since ancient times.

I'm old enough to remember when this was poignant, and true (and when "eight" was moved to "eighty")...

    Eight
    Megabytes
    And
    Constantly
    Swapping

But man how far we've come in so short a time!

heh - I can't say I realised ed was still under active development - but the joke man page made me chuckle.