Entertaining Stories
Stories
I have collected the following, hopefully entertaining, stories from the beginning of the Computer and Internet age for a while now. At the end of this list are some additional external links to other websites and interesting documents.
A Problem in the Marketing
(author unknown)
Academic Programmers - A Spotter's Guide
from
Pete Fenelon
Accident report on Pegasus air-strike accident
(author unknown)
Addicted to the Internet...
(author unknown)
Alice in DIGITALand
from
Richard Salz
Bill Gates against the Borgs
from
Andreas Reeh
Confuser News
from
Stuart Freedman
Creators admit Unix, C hoax
from
Jeff Johnson
DEC Wars
from
Alan Hastings, Steve Tarr & Dave Borman
Device Manual
(author unknown)
How to Hire a Programmer
from
Kevin D. Weeks
Hyper-Ethernet
from
Ed McGuire
Manual page for BABY
(author unknown)
Manual page for CRASHED
from
Neil Franklin
Manual page for DREAM
(author unknown)
Microsoft test Nuclear Device at secret Hanford Facility
(author unknown)
Murphy's Law
from
Joe Chase
Murphy's Law - Corrolaries
(author unknown)
NULL: A Computer Language Breakthrough
from
John R. Andrews
Real Programmers don't eat quiche
(author unknown)
Real Programmers don't use PASCAL
from
Ed Post
Real Programmers don't use FORTRAN, either !
(author unknown)
Software Olympics
(author unknown)
Software you'll never see
(author unknown)
Star Trek V - The EMAIL message
from
Miles O'Neal
Stroustrup's Interview
(author unknown)
The Creation
(author unknown)
The Paging Game
from
Jeff Berryman
The Tao of Programming
(author unknown)
The ten commandments for C programmers
from
Henry Spencer
The ten commandments for DOS
(author unknown)
The UNIX hierarchy
from
John Gilmore
The VAX/VMS Genesis Manual
from
Bernd Onasch
The VAXorcist
from
Christopher Russell
This explains everything !
(author unknown)
UNIX History
from
Alan Filipski
UNIX Wars
from
Eric Raymond
VAXen, My Children, Just Don't Belong In Some Places
from
Jack Harvey
VAX/VMS SPR for year 2000
(author unknown)
Wizardry Compiled
from
Rick Cook
Write in C !
(author unknown)
Hobbes' Internet Timeline
from
Robert H. Zakon
on
www.zakon.org
Zen and the Art of the Internet
from
Brendan P. Kehoe
on
www.cs.indiana.edu
The Bastard Operator from Hell
on
www.nyms.de
The Hacker Crackdown
from
Bruce Sterling
on
www.mit.edu
The Rainbow Series Library
on
www.radium.ncsc.mil
The Usenet FAQ
on
www.faqs.org
VAX/OpenVMS - The 20th anniversary
from
Digital Equipment Corp. 1977-1997
(2488 kB)
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
from
Claude Elwood Shannon, Bell Labs.
(358 kB)
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