[andrelaszlo]

This reminded me of an old story from The Daily WTF:

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Bourne-Into-Oblivion

[jmiserez]

I like the classic one from 1986 (!) a bit better:

http://www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080/~elf/hack/recovery.html

HN discussion:

Unix Recovery Legend (1986): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10160417 (143 points, 228 days ago, 60 comments)