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Stories like this pop up on HN over and over, (The same stories.) instead of waiting for reruns, is there some kind of place where they've all been collected? (
by unimpressive 14y ago
Stories like this pop up on HN over and over, (The same stories.) instead of waiting for reruns, is there some kind of place where they've all been collected? (Sort of like folklore.org)
EDIT: Besides the jargon file(s).
- elemeno 14y agoI've got a feeling that I first heard this story in the paperback version of the Jargon File - The New Hacker's Dictionary (3rd Ed). That book alone is a pretty great compendium of stories from the 70s and 80s.
- jacquesm 14y agocatb has some nice ones, for instance: http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html http://catb.org/jargon/html/magic-story.html