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Unix was a program gone bad

Unix was a program gone bad. Born into poverty, its parents, the phone com- pany, couldn’t afford more than a roll of teletype paper a year, so Unix never had decent documentation and its source files had to go without any comments whatsoever. Year after year,...

Unix version of Who’s On First

Unix: who(1)’s on what(1)? A Customer calls a UNIX consultant with a question Customer: What is the command that will tell me the revision code of a program? UNIX consul: Yes, that’s correct. Customer: No, what is it? UNIX consul: Yes. Customer: So, which...

Windows 95 Sourcecode

Subject: *** TOP SECRET MICROSOFT CODE *** Project: Version – Windows 95 Microsoft marketing strategy (MARKET.EXE): #include <nonsense.h> #include <lies.h> #include <spyware.h> /* Microsoft Network Connectivity library */ #include...

Top Geek Slogans

1. Cannot find REALITY.SYS. Universe halted. 2. COFFEE.EXE Missing – Insert Cup and Press Any Key 3. Buy a Pentium 586/90 so you can reboot faster. 4. 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2. 5. Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes. 6. Computers...

True History of the Net

[Key Players and Terms identified at end] First there was God. He was quite lonely so he created Dennis. Dennis was unimpressed with God. So,… God created Brian. But, Brian got bored with God. So Brian and Dennis started playing, and they created C. God saw C,...