Enjoy a randomly generated fortune:
$ fortune | cowsay _________________________________________ / Back in the early 60's, touch tone \ | phones only had 10 buttons. Some | | military versions had 16, while the 12 | | button jobs were used only by people | | who had "diva" (digital inquiry, voice | | answerback) systems -- mainly banks. | | Since in those days, only Western | | Electric made "data sets" (modems) the | | problems of terminology were all Bell | | System. We used to struggle with | | written descriptions of dial pads that | | were unfamiliar to most people (most | | phones were rotary then.) Partly in | | jest, some AT&T engineering types | | (there was no marketing in the good old | | days, which is why they were the good | | old days) made up the term | | "octalthorpe" (note spelling) to denote | | the "pound sign." Presumably because it | | has 8 points sticking out. It never | \ really caught on. / ----------------------------------------- \ ^__^ \ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||
$output = shell_exec("/usr/games/fortune | /usr/games/cowsay"); echo $output;