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I feel silly asking, but who or what is 'rtm'?

• kirubakaran 16y ago
  pg's friend. YC cofounder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
  • taylorbuley 16y ago
    Thanks for not being this guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2121511 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2121511
• dmuino 16y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
• dauphin 16y ago
  Book worm, nerd. Think Comic Book Guy, but healthier and smarter. Totally a bad-ass.
• bear 16y ago
  "Robert Morris, the other founder of Viaweb, whose username is Rtm" http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/bbnexcerpts.txt
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• ezalor 16y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris
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• dauphin 16y ago
  1: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Robert_Tappan_Morris https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Robert_Tappan... 2: same acronym as RTFM, but polite.
  • deno 16y ago
    Read The Friendly Manual. How much more polite can you be?
• kujawa 16y ago
  Some punk skript kiddie who broke the internet in 1988.
  • steveklabnik 16y ago
    I hear he crashed 1507 systems in one day.
    • cschep 16y ago
      Yo, this is RTM!
      • alanfalcon 16y ago
        Well that's great. There goes MIT.
    • jason_slack 16y ago
      Zero Cool....
• nkassis 16y ago
  First guy to completely crash the internet ;p
• mcantor 16y ago
  Someone with a Wikipedia page where the only thing in the "See also" section is "List of convicted computer criminals." Diagnosis: Badass.
• ananthrk 16y ago
  http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rtm http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rtm Most recently, one of the creators of Arc (along with pg), the language used to create/run HN.