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Oh my god, I was convinced until the end that it was a top notch joke site... then I got to the credit card form.
by reitzensteinm 7y ago
Oh my god, I was convinced until the end that it was a top notch joke site... then I got to the credit card form.
- DonHopkins 7y agoThere used to be an early ARPAnet mailing list called "INFO-COBOL@MC", that was actually for exchanging jokes and copyrighted Dave Barry articles (which was an officially prohibited abuse of the government sponsored ARPAnet). It was a great stealth name because nobody took COBOL seriously, and we would just laugh at people who posted COBOL questions. Here are some old INFO-COBOL messages archived in the MIT-AI HUMOR directory: http://its.svensson.org/HUMOR%3bINFO%20COBOL http://its.svensson.org/HUMOR%3bINFO%20COBOL Then there was The TTY of Geoffrey S. Goodfellow's spin-off, the specialized "DB-LOVERS" mailing list, just for dead baby jokes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8418591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8418591 Speaking of COBOL jokes: https://medium.com/@donhopkins/cobol-forever-1a49f7d28a39 https://medium.com/@donhopkins/cobol-forever-1a49f7d28a39
- reitzensteinm 7y agoThat's pretty funny, thanks for sharing!