[dpapathanasiou]

And it was just over ten years ago when Erlang took over the front page of hacker news in a flash prank:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145

Unfortunately, I cannot find a screenshot or archived view now (web.archive.org took a capture on March 10th, and not again until the 14th).

[giancarlostoro]

That is pretty awesome, and I love the fact he had to come back and say, no seriously guys, I was just kidding, no need to flood Erlang. Man I swear Erlang is highly underrated. I've not had the pleasure of building much with it, only read through parts of the book by Joe and kept up with some of his blogs and posts from time to time. Anybody who loves servers should really pay attention to his work.

[mercer]

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11 perhaps?