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Agreed. Don't forget the "Can't send emails farther than 500 miles" one, too [0]: 0: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/

Agreed. Don't forget the "Can't send emails farther than 500 miles" one, too [0]: 0: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

rationalist 6mo ago
More Magic: https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.html https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.html
- nickt 6mo ago
  I love this one. I thought it was old when I first read it, and today I realised that was 36 years ago!
  - kraquepype 6mo ago
    ~20 years ago for me... I remember finding it when I first started working as a sysadmin. That and the story of the first "bug" report. That was a fun time. https://www.doncio.navy.mil/CHIPS/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=5475 https://www.doncio.navy.mil/CHIPS/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=547...
rouvax 6mo ago
For more reading, see also: https://web.archive.org/web/20250719141310/https://dbrgn.ch/stories-from-the-internet.html https://web.archive.org/web/20250719141310/https://dbrgn.ch/... I'm a bit proud of having suggested the author to add the 2019 entry (thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19798678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19798678). Hopefully there's another repo of Internet stories somewhere else?
xeonmc 6mo ago
Not quite tech or sci-fi, but for me it’s https://www.eternal-flame.org/library/oldlibrary/georgebusiness.html https://www.eternal-flame.org/library/oldlibrary/georgebusin...
- IAmBroom 6mo ago
  Is that the origin of the Sean Connery dragon movie, Dragonheart?
riffraff 6mo ago
also the story of Mel https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
robinpie 6mo ago
The network electrically incompatible with Excel: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem_mri_disables_every_ios_device_in/e8pgstk/ https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem... https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem_mri_disables_every_ios_device_in/e8rbgmg/ https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem...

Agreed. Don't forget the "Can't send emails farther than 500 miles" one, too [0]: 0: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

rationalist 6mo ago

More Magic: https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.html https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.html

nickt 6mo ago
I love this one. I thought it was old when I first read it, and today I realised that was 36 years ago!
- kraquepype 6mo ago
  ~20 years ago for me... I remember finding it when I first started working as a sysadmin. That and the story of the first "bug" report. That was a fun time. https://www.doncio.navy.mil/CHIPS/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=5475 https://www.doncio.navy.mil/CHIPS/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=547...

rouvax 6mo ago

For more reading, see also: https://web.archive.org/web/20250719141310/https://dbrgn.ch/stories-from-the-internet.html https://web.archive.org/web/20250719141310/https://dbrgn.ch/... I'm a bit proud of having suggested the author to add the 2019 entry (thanks to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19798678 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19798678). Hopefully there's another repo of Internet stories somewhere else?

xeonmc 6mo ago

Not quite tech or sci-fi, but for me it’s https://www.eternal-flame.org/library/oldlibrary/georgebusiness.html https://www.eternal-flame.org/library/oldlibrary/georgebusin...

IAmBroom 6mo ago
Is that the origin of the Sean Connery dragon movie, Dragonheart?

riffraff 6mo ago

also the story of Mel https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

robinpie 6mo ago

The network electrically incompatible with Excel: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem_mri_disables_every_ios_device_in/e8pgstk/ https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem... https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem_mri_disables_every_ios_device_in/e8rbgmg/ https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem...