This Haiku Poetry Creator is not only a tribute to that Japanese art form but an affectionate homage to the forgotten Commodore 64 computer. In a time before the Internet or Windows Operating Systems, when the arcade games Pac-Man and Centipede ruled, the Commodore 64 was the only affordable personal computer on the market. A self-contained device that resembled a fat keyboard, the C64 required no monitor because it plugged into your television set. Recording programs meant saving them onto standard audio cassettes or, if you splurged for the fancier unit, onto 5 1/4" floppy disks. Printers pounded pins against typewriter ribbons. Plug in a modem and you could access text-based Bulletin Board Systems run by hobbyists and computer stores, long-distance charges possible. Obtaining programming for the Commodore 64 meant either downloading them from BBS's or manually typing them in from printouts found in computer books and magazines. The latter took time, sometimes as much as thirty hours of typing for one program. If the programs were in Basic, you could alter them to suit your needs. My Haiku Poetry Creator was just such a program. I expanded it, added graphics and traded it to other homebred computer geeks. But when the C64 became a dinosaur, my Haiku Poetry Creator became another fatality of advancing technology. I couldn't let that happen. So, like the mythic Phoenix, my Haiku Poetry Creator has arisen from its ashes to soar freely once more. And, if I can find a parser program I can decipher and manipulate, I will also resurrect some of my wacky C64 text adventure games as well. My Haiku Poetry Creator's text handling is completely within its HTML format. It contains no script files, no cookies, no ActiveX, etc. By bringing up that WebPage's Source, you can see how it works. You can also copy it, alter it and use a variation of it on your WebSite, just like we old crotchety Commodore 64 users used to do in bygone days.