Stories from the Internet
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·January 12, 2025teddyh
“COMPUTER-RELATED HORROR STORIES, FOLKLORE, AND ANECDOTES”
<https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/computer.folkl...>
“Computer Stupidities”
maaarghk
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!
modin
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.
farleykr
The Forgotten Employee would make a great addition:
ChrisMarshallNY
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/e...
dtgriscom
"I fart in your general direction!"
tacitusarc
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#issuecomme...
bombcar
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....
mitch-crn
A small collection of Unix/Linux Fun. Some classic works: http://crn.hopto.org/unix/#fun
I was always partial to the BOFH: 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