These are just the top few in the search engine's rankings. If you search for the URLs you'll see that some of them have been submitted many, many times. For

These are just the top few in the search engine's rankings. If you search for the URLs you'll see that some of them have been submitted many, many times. For example: * 12 times: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html * 6 times : https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html https://www.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html * 4 times : http://www.pbm.com//~lindahl/mel.html http://www.pbm.com//~lindahl/mel.html * 3 times : http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/t/TheStoryofMel.html http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/t/TheStoryofMel.html It's just that subsequent submissions have not always scored as highly, exactly because people recognise them. Perhaps "classic" should be: * Has scored more than 50 points on some submission[0]; * The URL has been submitted more than 10 times[1]; ======== [0] For some value of "50" [1] For some value of "10"