[CONTEST ENDED] Have a laugh with us on International Joke Day!

[AmyReyes]

UPDATE: this contest has ended. We loved reading all of your networking jokes 😂 Thank you to everyone who played along! Our randomly selected winners are: @niroulabh, @RichardP, and @ICT-Joe. Congrats! 🎉 

July 1st is International Joke Day, a day to celebrate laughter and revel in the humor that brings us all closer together. They say laughter is the best medicine, and for good reason! Research has shown it increases oxygen to the heart, lungs, and muscles; not to mention it increases endorphins, which improve your mood and reduce physical pain.

I think we all could use a little more joy and fun in our lives, and what better way to tickle your funny bone than by engaging in a joke contest?

This year,  in honor of International Joke Day, let’s hear your best, most laugh-worthy (or cringe inducing!) IT or networking jokes. And don’t forget visual humor—comics count, too! 

How to enter

Share your IT or networking related joke in a comment on this blog post before 9:59am EST on Friday, July 7th. Just remember to stick to the community guidelines: Keep it clean and in good taste! No political, religious, or otherwise offensive jokes please. (Probably goes without saying, but just in case!)

How to win

Once submissions close at 9:59am EST on July 7th, we select three entries at random to win a Cisco Meraki polo.

Good luck, and keep the laughs comin'!

The Fine Print

• Limit one entry per community member
• Submission period: Friday, June 30th, 2023 at 11am EST through Friday, July 7th, 2023 at 9:59am EST
• Complete rules and eligibility can be found here.

[KarstenI]

I once told a joke that good, that even HR called and wanted to hear the joke …

[van604]

What is  Darth Vader's girlfriends name?

......

Ella -- Vader

[Inderdeep]

Why Network engineers prefer dark mode CLI?
Because light attracts bugs 😀

[Madhan_kumar_G]

Budget Negotiations 😂

[TBHPTL]

01010111 01101000 01111001 00100000 01110111 01100001 01110011 00100000 00110110 00100000 01100001 01100110 01110010 01100001 01101001 01100100 00100000 01101111 01100110 00100000 00110111 00111111 00100000 01000010 01100101 01100011 01100001 01110101 01110011 01100101 00100000 00110111 00101100 00100000 00111000 00101100 00100000 00111001 00100001

[thaack]

Always loved this classic.

I'd tell you a joke about UDP, but you probably wouldn't get it...

[Miguel1]

Un empresario invitó a sus trabajadores a una comida de fraternidad. Cuando llegaron los postres se levantó para pronunciar un discurso. Durante el mismo contó un chiste que, al ser oído, provocó grandes carcajadas en todos los trabajadores, menos en uno. El empresario le preguntó, sorprendido por su inhabitual seriedad: – ¿Es que a usted no le ha hecho gracia?- A mí me ha hecho la misma gracia que a todos los demás, contestó el perspicaz empleado, pero es que yo me jubilo mañana.

[TBHPTL]

If you like binary, this one is a bit more funny...

01101000 01110100 01110100 01110000 01110011 00111010 00101111 00101111 01110111 01110111 01110111 00101110 01111001 01101111 01110101 01110100 01110101 01100010 01100101 00101110 01100011 01101111 01101101 00101111 01110111 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 00111111 01110110 00111101 01111000 01110110 01000110 01011010 01101010 01101111 00110101 01010000 01100111 01000111 00110000

[Nikhil2311]

One of the Best joke is

"DNS is the root of all problems"

[Nikhil2311]

There’s no place like 127.0.0.1

[Bandwiches]

Why did the IT network administrator go to therapy?

Because they couldn't stop subnetting their problems and needed someone to help them resolve their binary conflicts

[JeremySchmidt]

I have a great joke about pizza but I am afraid it is to Cheesy!!

[Dtmacri0001]

Q. How do you catch an Ether Bunny.
A. With an Ethernet!!

[JeremySchmidt]

Does anyone know if they laugh loud in Hawaii or is it just aloha??

[JeremySchmidt]

Did you hear about that guy who stole a bunch of Ipads?  

He should FACETIME!!

[WillFulmer]

Why did the Cisco Meraki access point go to therapy?

Because it was tired of feeling disconnected and just needed someone to route for it!

[SyringaHosp]

I had a user call me saying she couldn't access her files on the network. I unplugged the coffee maker and plugged in the server and said; "Try it now."

[DIB]

How do you make a router laugh?

TCL it in the RIB.

[JeremySchmidt]

I had a doctor's appointment the other day and he told me i am going deaf! 

Man that news was really hard for me to hear!😭

[Dherrington]

What does Transylvania and 10BASE5 networks have in common? They both have vampires.

[agamez]

How do robots eat pizza?

One byte at a time.

[RichardP]

Q. Why did the networking engineer always carry a ladder?

A. Because he wanted to climb the "access point" and reach new heights of connectivity!

[cciechaz]

A multicast packet walks into 100 bars.......

[almightythor]

I quit my job working for Nike. I just couldn’t do it anymore.

Whatever you do always give 100%. Unless you are donating blood.

"Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."

"Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"

"Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."

"OK, I'll tell you a TCP joke."

"Ok, I will hear a TCP joke."

"Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?"

"Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke."

I'd tell you a networking joke about UDP But I wouldn't know if you got it.

Last one;

Three tech guys named Chuck, Elon, and Jeff all built rockets to go to the moon. The mission commanders restricted them each to carry only one item each on the rockets. Jeff brought a kindle to read. Chuck brought a meraki camera so he could webex from space. Elon brought the door from his tesla so he could roll down the window.

[DarrenWright]

I have tons of Jokes.  Here you go....

Jokes dropped | Jokes dropped | 65 Jokes were not logged.  

[Willy_22]

Security Gateway Color States

[Martin-cantwell]

This was good when covid was around 

Stay at 127.0.0.1 wear a 255.255.255.0 

[Martin-cantwell]

Why do networking professionals prefer puns?

Because they always get a good "byte" out of them!

[Martin-cantwell]

Why was the FortiGate Cold? 🥶

It left all its "ports" open! 

[niroulabh]

Drink And driving kills people.

Drink and CLIing kills the network.

[Durga_Konduru]

Why did the firewall go on a diet?

To keep the unwanted packets out and stay in shape!

Why did the computer go to the doctor?

Because it had a virus and couldn't stop sneezing .

[combobulated]

What happens if you violate Ohm's Law?

You have to go to circuit court.

[decassuncao]

WiFi went down for 5 minutes, so I had to talk to my family. They really look nice people. 🤓

[Nikhil2311]

The problem with UDP jokes isI don’t get half of them

[Nikhil2311]

I was asking all my neighbors for an EIGRP joke. Didn’t receive all replies, so I am stuck in active

[Nikhil2311]

My friend: Hey, did you watch that new movie called ‘IP Address’?

 Me: Which one, original or spoof?

[Nikhil2311]

I have told IPv4 joke 254 times. Then it stopped being funny.

[Nikhil2311]

An ARP request goes to McDonald’s and asks for a Big MAC

[Nikhil2311]

I think my favorite is :

A VRRP packet walks into a bar...

It looks around, panics, kicks a stool, flips a table over, and sets the bar on fire, then runs outside screaming.

No one knows why.

[webfrank]

The worst illnes for a mouse: the clickinson deseases 

[DanielWahlsten]

A bit too late but you never joke about networking. It’s serious stuff 😊

[Andre_S]

A bunch of TCP packets walk into a bar. The bartender says, “Hang on just a second, I need to close the window.”

[PankajB]

News spread that recently Donald Trump was sent to prison with a donkey....

Everyone asked why was donkey sent to jail ?

See... I told you, no one cares for Donald !

(Its just a joke, please don't take personally, no kudos, not interested in winning any prizes... my sincere apologies)

[RARAO_PROINF]

A  scientist found traces of copper wire dating back 200 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 150 years ago.

[ICT-Joe]

Two aerials get married. The ceremony wasn't great but the reception was excellent!

[Duijv023]

Why are cloud services interrupted?
Because they suffer thunderstorms

[rwiesmann]

I can’t get my network printer to work...
Oh Brother, where are you?

[Martin-cantwell]

A font walks into a bar ...

The bar Keep says "We don't serve your type in here" 

[Andre_S]

The worst thing about broadcast storm jokes is that everyone’s already heard them a hundred times.

[Andre_S]

I always get jittery when making jokes in real time

[TimFelton]

[GKAVALIEROS]

[derner]

Why did the computer go to art school? It wanted to improve its networking skills by mastering the "LAN-scape"!

[pckit]

Credits: Kip and Gary Datacenter Comics

[Nikhil2311]

 "Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."
"Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"
"Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."
"OK, I'll tell you a TCP joke."
"Ok, I will hear a TCP joke."
"Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?"
"Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke."
"Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke. It will last 10 seconds, it has two characters, it does not have a setting, it ends with a punchline."
"Ok, I am ready to get your TCP joke that will last 10 seconds, has two characters, does not have an explicit setting, and ends with a punchline."
"I'm sorry, your connection has timed out.
.Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?

[SSAY-AXS]

I prefer multicast jokes. I tell it once, and everyone listening gets it.

[SSAY-AXS]

I like this joke : https://youtu.be/aPtr43KHBGk

[AmyReyes]

UPDATE: this contest has ended. We loved reading all of your networking jokes 😂 Thank you to everyone who played along! Our randomly selected winners are: @niroulabh, @RichardP, and @ICT-Joe. Congrats! 🎉 

[niroulabh]

Congratulations to the winners.

[van604]

congrats to all the winners and all those that put in a joke, did put a smile and a groan through out the week.

[Dherrington]

Congrats to all the winners

[Inderdeep]

Congrats to the winners !

[almightythor]

congrats indeed

[Nikhil2311]

Congrats everyone.

[decassuncao]

Congrats to all, specially for the winners. 

[almightythor]

congrats to the judges