[frobozz]

The story where emails could only be sent a certain distance is fun. I haven't read that one in a while.

[ljf]

https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles for those who have not read it - it is brilliant and solving the bug involves understanding the speed of light!

[allendoerfer]

It's on "Did you win the Putnam?" or "xkcd 927" level and does not really need a link on HN at this point.

[wffurr]

Now I need to look up "Did you win the Putnam?". It's my lucky day to learn about this.

[danielheath]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079

[ljf]

https://xkcd.com/1053/

I can assure you there are plenty of readers here who have not heard of it. I shared the link at work recently and was interested that not a single person knew of it (they are fairly young though).

[Beldin]

Similarly: open office cannot print on Tuesdays.

https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/print_on_tuesday.html

(Date embedded in printjob and parsed by the wrong filter)

[Sophira]

There's a whole load of stories like these linked from https://dbrgn.ch/stories-from-the-internet.html . I'd definitely recommend them.