[jihadjihad]

Agreed. Don't forget the "Can't send emails farther than 500 miles" one, too [0]:

0: https://web.mit.edu/jemorris/humor/500-miles

[rationalist]

More Magic:

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/magic.html

[nickt]

I love this one. I thought it was old when I first read it, and today I realised that was 36 years ago!

[kraquepype]

~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.

https://www.doncio.navy.mil/CHIPS/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=547...

[xeonmc]

Not quite tech or sci-fi, but for me it’s https://www.eternal-flame.org/library/oldlibrary/georgebusin...

[IAmBroom]

Is that the origin of the Sean Connery dragon movie, Dragonheart?

[riffraff]

also the story of Mel

https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html

[robinpie]

The network electrically incompatible with Excel:

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem...

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem...

[rouvax]

For more reading, see also: https://web.archive.org/web/20250719141310/https://dbrgn.ch/...

I'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?