Stories for a Computer Audience

All ofthese jokes/stories were originally posted between August 1982 and March 1993. Yes, it's been 7+ years since I ran out of time to keep updating the list. The dates on each line are the timestamps on the files (which may not match any internal dates) and show when these were added to the collection. Note that the list is sorted by date. Click here for the alphabetical list.

Mar 24 1993 The Virus Directory (1992 edition)

Jan 15 1993 New for the 90's: the Keyboardless Apple

Dec 18 1992 Software Update: The Next Generation

Dec 18 1992 polyglot.[cob|pas|f77|c|ps|sh|com]

Dec 17 1992 Advanced Computer Technology Developed by NASA

Dec 17 1992 VAX Privileges

Dec 16 1992 Categories of UNIX Users

Dec 16 1992 baby.1

Dec 16 1992 bake.1

Dec 16 1992 ed.1

Dec 16 1992 The A to Z of CYBERCRUD

Dec 16 1992 Venus Equilateral

Dec 16 1992 What's a Bit?

Dec 16 1992 Real Programmers Don't Each Quiche

Dec 16 1992 The Feet First Guide to Programming Languages

Dec 16 1992 Be Environmentally Friendly and Help Reduce Computer Waste!

Dec 15 1992 Useful Error Message. Not

Dec 15 1992 Eleanor Parody

Dec 15 1992 Ghostbugger

Dec 15 1992 Reflections On Ethics

Dec 11 1992 Zasm Relative Jumps

Dec 11 1992 The Sex Life Of An Electron

Dec 11 1992 The Gospel According To St. Hacker

Dec 11 1992 Real Programmers Write Fortran

Dec 11 1992 Ethergate Advertisement

Dec 11 1992 Electronic Grains

Dec 11 1992 And Who Do You Think Created Chaos

Dec 11 1992 The Nine Types of Users

Dec 11 1992 Michelangelo Virus Hysteria Syndrome

Dec 7 1992 Common Slop Multiple Access with Cow Detect

Dec 1 1992 The UNIX Guru Maintenance Manual

Dec 1 1992 Overflowing the Bit Bucket

Dec 1 1992 Fifty Ways to Hose Your Code

Dec 1 1992 Douglas Adams' Guide to the Macintosh

Dec 1 1992 Cleaning The Bit Bucket

Dec 1 1992 Becoming A UNIX Wizard

Feb 27 1992 A Legend For Our Time

Feb 26 1992 And The Compiler Says

Feb 11 1992 The Good Old Days

Feb 11 1992 SysAdmin Defined

Feb 11 1992 The Definitive Null Command

Feb 11 1992 X: Dangerous Virus!

Feb 11 1992 Human DNA demystified

Feb 11 1992 Hackers Redefined

Feb 11 1992 Last night I dreamed that the Real World had adopted the UNIX Philosophy

Feb 11 1992 A Modest Proposal for Encoding Debate

Feb 11 1992 Argument and Debate on USENET

Feb 11 1992 'cal 9 1752' explained

Feb 11 1992 Translating Seminar Announcements

Feb 11 1992 Creators Admit UNIX, C Hoax

Feb 11 1992 No Comment. It's safer that way

Feb 11 1992 Introducing . . . the NiCE Machine

Feb 11 1992 Late Breaking News Stories

Feb 11 1992 The Halting Problem is Solvable

Feb 11 1992 Introducing the HP Infinity-Net

Feb 11 1992 Lunch, the HP Way

Feb 11 1992 A Problem In The Making

Feb 11 1992 Ansi C: Stay Tuned for This Important Message

Feb 11 1992 Alice in UNIX Land

Feb 11 1992 The 12 Days of Vacation

Feb 11 1992 Into the Moat or Why I Are a Hardware Guy

Feb 10 1992 The VisiCalc Song

Feb 10 1992 The Toaster Happiness Koan

Feb 10 1992 The Past Is Prologue

Feb 10 1992 The Impossible Code

Feb 10 1992 The Paging Game Game Rules

Feb 10 1992 The Hackers Song

Feb 10 1992 The Great Quux Poem Collection

Feb 10 1992 The Structured Programmer's Soliloquy

Feb 10 1992 Secret Love

Feb 10 1992 Rosencrantz And Ethernet

Feb 10 1992 Shell Talk Santa Claus Is Coming

Feb 10 1992 Ode To A Queue

Feb 10 1992 Mit Lisp Machines

Feb 10 1992 Meeting Buddha On The Road

Feb 10 1992 MR-DOS Advertisement

Feb 10 1992 Keylocky

Feb 10 1992 IBM Virtual Reality Update

Feb 10 1992 Genesis, Release 2.5

Feb 10 1992 Boot It

Feb 10 1992 Building A Main Frame

Feb 10 1992 A Song For C

Feb 10 1992 A Fairy Tale In Akademia

Feb 6 1992 Net Dot Problem

Feb 3 1992 FSF announces GNU GNURM, the new, improved network worm!

Jan 29 1992 Dreaming in LISP

Jan 29 1992 48-bit computers

Jan 24 1992 Hammers are GOOD!

Jan 22 1992 Funny UNIX Shell Commands

Jan 22 1992 Happy Birthday HAL!

Jan 15 1992 The Usenet Oracle Speaks

Jan 15 1992 Is modern software design contributing to societal stupidity?

Jan 15 1992 Question on programming languages

Jan 15 1992 Sun and IBM Make Announcements

Jan 15 1992 To Engineer is Human

Jan 15 1992 Software you'll never see

Jan 15 1992 Simmons' Laws of System Administration

Dec 20 1991 The Sun'll Come Up Tomorrow

Dec 19 1991 The Ten Commandments for C Programmers

Dec 9 1991 Are you an Internet Nerd?

Nov 27 1991 The Way It Is

Oct 16 1991 The Power User's Guide to Power Users

Oct 4 1991 Od-e_to_e-thor

Jun 21 1991 Digital's hip to the standards thing

Mar 22 1990 Neglected Topics in Computer Science

Jan 25 1990 The Truth About GNU

Aug 1 1989 Sun Environmental Requirements

Mar 3 1989 The Parable of the Two Programmers

Jun 17 1988 DataPlunger

Jan 6 1988 Leaping a Sun 3

Sep 12 1985 Some of me favourite music

Sep 12 1985 PutriDos Users' Column

Apr 17 1985 Topics in Dog Signal Processing

Apr 1 1985 The UNIX Hierarchy

Mar 22 1985 The Rules of Netnews Debating

Mar 22 1985 The Laws of Computing (reprise)

Mar 13 1985 Network Conversations

Mar 13 1985 Better Watch Out

Dec 13 1984 The Kingdom of Transformation

Nov 26 1984 From IBM: A New Operating System

Nov 5 1984 CS350a Final Exam

Aug 28 1984 Commandments of a Computing Centre

Aug 28 1984 Warning to VAX users

Apr 13 1984 Product Announcement: KL-1000

Apr 11 1984 Real Programmers ...

Apr 10 1984 Computer Literacy Test

Apr 10 1984 Computer Limericks

Mar 29 1984 To C or not to C

Mar 23 1984 Assembler as it REALLY is

Feb 14 1984 HAI-c: C for the Fifth Generation

Aug 27 1982 The Laws of Computing

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