The Song of Hakawatha
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The Song of Hakawatha is a parody of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha, containing references to hacking, Unix and compiling.
It was posted on Usenet by Duncan Sinclair in 1989 (as an April Fools joke?) and allegedly originated in the University of Glasgow in the early 1980s.
The pretended author, "F. X. Reid", is a real British academic.