Hacker Remix

Stories from the Internet

51 points by ColinWright 7 days ago | 10 comments

ChrisMarshallNY 4 days ago

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

teddyh 5 days ago

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

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

“Computer Stupidities”

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

maaarghk 4 days ago

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 4 days ago

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

farleykr 4 days ago

The Forgotten Employee would make a great addition:

https://sites.google.com/site/forgottenemployee/