alt.hn

1/12/2025 at 2:36:00 PM

Stories from the Internet

https://dbrgn.ch/stories-from-the-internet.html

by ColinWright

1/14/2025 at 7:00:32 PM

“COMPUTER-RELATED HORROR STORIES, FOLKLORE, AND ANECDOTES”

<https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/computer.folkl...>

“Computer Stupidities”

<http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/>

by teddyh

1/14/2025 at 11:51:34 PM

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!

by maaarghk

1/14/2025 at 11:09:20 PM

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

by modin

1/14/2025 at 11:24:10 PM

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...

by ChrisMarshallNY

1/15/2025 at 12:03:35 AM

"I fart in your general direction!"

by dtgriscom

1/14/2025 at 7:33:32 PM

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....

by bombcar

1/15/2025 at 3:12:34 AM

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...

by tacitusarc