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I love this one. I thought it was old when I first read it, and today I realised that was 36 years ago!
reply~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.
replyhttps://www.doncio.navy.mil/CHIPS/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=547...
The network electrically incompatible with Excel:
replyhttps://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem...
https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem...
Not quite tech or sci-fi, but for me it’s https://www.eternal-flame.org/library/oldlibrary/georgebusin...
replyIs that the origin of the Sean Connery dragon movie, Dragonheart?
replyalso the story of Mel
replyFor more reading, see also: https://web.archive.org/web/20250719141310/https://dbrgn.ch/...
replyI'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?