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Stories from the Internet

53 points by ColinWright 2y ago

mitch-crn 2y ago
A small collection of Unix/Linux Fun. Some classic works: http://crn.hopto.org/unix/#fun http://crn.hopto.org/unix/#fun
teddyh 2y ago
“COMPUTER-RELATED HORROR STORIES, FOLKLORE, AND ANECDOTES” <https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/computer.folklore.from.net.rumors.html https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/computer.folkl...> “Computer Stupidities” <http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/>
- maaarghk 2y ago
  oh man! every so often for the past decade I've tried to remember "rinkworks". I recognised it immediately from your post. I remember this being one of the first websites I would read as a kid, 20 odd years ago. cheers for the nostalgia buzz!
bombcar 2y ago
sup That story shows something that even "network aware" people didn't realize for awhile - you could have MORE than just a LAN, it was possible to have routers and they could forward broadcasts....
ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
I was always partial to the BOFH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell I always thought I started reading when I still lived in MD (so it would be the 1980s), but it seems he started in the 90s. The Daily WTF can basically provide an endless supply of these stories: https://thedailywtf.com https://thedailywtf.com
modin 2y ago
The jargon files[0] are also a fun old source. I particularly liked the stories about Magic and Mel. They are all under Appendix A. [0]: http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html
farleykr 2y ago
The Forgotten Employee would make a great addition: https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/ https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/
ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago
The last time I referenced this file, it was flagged. Let's see if that happens again. Guy Macon compiled a file that contained a huge number of concatenated UseNet insults. The Insult File. It doesn't have any bad words, and used to pass all filters: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/92h0y0/comment/e35n99a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/92h0y0/comment/e...
- dtgriscom 2y ago
  "I fart in your general direction!"
tacitusarc 2y ago
What a wonderful comment: > > Could you submit a PR? > Nope. It would take me quite a while to get everything up and running, in order to insert a try catch, seeing as I have no idea how your project is structured, or what requirements you have for pullrequests. > Someone else who usually works with webpack-cli should be able to fix this issue in a matter of minutes. https://github.com/webpack/webpack-cli/issues/962#issuecomment-502965536 https://github.com/webpack/webpack-cli/issues/962#issuecomme...

53 points by ColinWright 2y ago

A small collection of Unix/Linux Fun. Some classic works: http://crn.hopto.org/unix/#fun http://crn.hopto.org/unix/#fun

“COMPUTER-RELATED HORROR STORIES, FOLKLORE, AND ANECDOTES” <https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/computer.folklore.from.net.rumors.html https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/computer.folkl...> “Computer Stupidities” <http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/ http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/>

maaarghk 2y ago
oh man! every so often for the past decade I've tried to remember "rinkworks". I recognised it immediately from your post. I remember this being one of the first websites I would read as a kid, 20 odd years ago. cheers for the nostalgia buzz!

bombcar 2y ago

sup That story shows something that even "network aware" people didn't realize for awhile - you could have MORE than just a LAN, it was possible to have routers and they could forward broadcasts....

ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

I was always partial to the BOFH: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastard_Operator_From_Hell I always thought I started reading when I still lived in MD (so it would be the 1980s), but it seems he started in the 90s. The Daily WTF can basically provide an endless supply of these stories: https://thedailywtf.com https://thedailywtf.com

modin 2y ago

The jargon files[0] are also a fun old source. I particularly liked the stories about Magic and Mel. They are all under Appendix A. [0]: http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html

farleykr 2y ago

The Forgotten Employee would make a great addition: https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/ https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/

ChrisMarshallNY 2y ago

The last time I referenced this file, it was flagged. Let's see if that happens again. Guy Macon compiled a file that contained a huge number of concatenated UseNet insults. The Insult File. It doesn't have any bad words, and used to pass all filters: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/92h0y0/comment/e35n99a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/92h0y0/comment/e...

dtgriscom 2y ago
"I fart in your general direction!"

tacitusarc 2y ago

What a wonderful comment: > > Could you submit a PR? > Nope. It would take me quite a while to get everything up and running, in order to insert a try catch, seeing as I have no idea how your project is structured, or what requirements you have for pullrequests. > Someone else who usually works with webpack-cli should be able to fix this issue in a matter of minutes. https://github.com/webpack/webpack-cli/issues/962#issuecomment-502965536 https://github.com/webpack/webpack-cli/issues/962#issuecomme...