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jihadjihad 5 hours ago

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

rationalist 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

More Magic:

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

nickt 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I love this one. I thought it was old when I first read it, and today I realised that was 36 years ago!

kraquepype 2 hours ago | parent [-]

~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=547...

riffraff 38 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

also the story of Mel

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

xeonmc 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

IAmBroom 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Is that the origin of the Sean Connery dragon movie, Dragonheart?

rouvax 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For more reading, see also: 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).

Hopefully there's another repo of Internet stories somewhere else?