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 alphabetically. Click here for the date ordered list.

Feb 11 1992 'cal 9 1752' explained

Jan 29 1992 48-bit computers

Feb 10 1992 A Fairy Tale In Akademia

Feb 27 1992 A Legend For Our Time

Feb 11 1992 A Modest Proposal for Encoding Debate

Feb 11 1992 A Problem In The Making

Feb 10 1992 A Song For C

Dec 17 1992 Advanced Computer Technology Developed by NASA

Feb 11 1992 Alice in UNIX Land

Feb 26 1992 And The Compiler Says

Dec 11 1992 And Who Do You Think Created Chaos

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

Dec 9 1991 Are you an Internet Nerd?

Feb 11 1992 Argument and Debate on USENET

Mar 23 1984 Assembler as it REALLY is

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

Dec 1 1992 Becoming A UNIX Wizard

Mar 13 1985 Better Watch Out

Feb 10 1992 Boot It

Feb 10 1992 Building A Main Frame

Nov 5 1984 CS350a Final Exam

Dec 16 1992 Categories of UNIX Users

Dec 1 1992 Cleaning The Bit Bucket

Aug 28 1984 Commandments of a Computing Centre

Dec 7 1992 Common Slop Multiple Access with Cow Detect

Apr 10 1984 Computer Limericks

Apr 10 1984 Computer Literacy Test

Feb 11 1992 Creators Admit UNIX, C Hoax

Jun 17 1988 DataPlunger

Jun 21 1991 Digital's hip to the standards thing

Dec 1 1992 Douglas Adams' Guide to the Macintosh

Jan 29 1992 Dreaming in LISP

Dec 15 1992 Eleanor Parody

Dec 11 1992 Electronic Grains

Dec 11 1992 Ethergate Advertisement

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

Dec 1 1992 Fifty Ways to Hose Your Code

Nov 26 1984 From IBM: A New Operating System

Jan 22 1992 Funny UNIX Shell Commands

Feb 10 1992 Genesis, Release 2.5

Dec 15 1992 Ghostbugger

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

Feb 11 1992 Hackers Redefined

Jan 24 1992 Hammers are GOOD!

Jan 22 1992 Happy Birthday HAL!

Feb 11 1992 Human DNA demystified

Feb 10 1992 IBM Virtual Reality Update

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

Feb 11 1992 Introducing . . . the NiCE Machine

Feb 11 1992 Introducing the HP Infinity-Net

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

Feb 10 1992 Keylocky

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

Feb 11 1992 Late Breaking News Stories

Jan 6 1988 Leaping a Sun 3

Feb 11 1992 Lunch, the HP Way

Feb 10 1992 MR-DOS Advertisement

Feb 10 1992 Meeting Buddha On The Road

Dec 11 1992 Michelangelo Virus Hysteria Syndrome

Feb 10 1992 Mit Lisp Machines

Mar 22 1990 Neglected Topics in Computer Science

Feb 6 1992 Net Dot Problem

Mar 13 1985 Network Conversations

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

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

Oct 4 1991 Od-e_to_e-thor

Feb 10 1992 Ode To A Queue

Dec 1 1992 Overflowing the Bit Bucket

Apr 13 1984 Product Announcement: KL-1000

Sep 12 1985 PutriDos Users' Column

Jan 15 1992 Question on programming languages

Apr 11 1984 Real Programmers ...

Dec 16 1992 Real Programmers Don't Each Quiche

Dec 11 1992 Real Programmers Write Fortran

Dec 15 1992 Reflections On Ethics

Feb 10 1992 Rosencrantz And Ethernet

Feb 10 1992 Secret Love

Feb 10 1992 Shell Talk Santa Claus Is Coming

Jan 15 1992 Simmons' Laws of System Administration

Dec 18 1992 Software Update: The Next Generation

Jan 15 1992 Software you'll never see

Sep 12 1985 Some of me favourite music

Aug 1 1989 Sun Environmental Requirements

Jan 15 1992 Sun and IBM Make Announcements

Feb 11 1992 SysAdmin Defined

Feb 11 1992 The 12 Days of Vacation

Dec 16 1992 The A to Z of CYBERCRUD

Feb 11 1992 The Definitive Null Command

Dec 16 1992 The Feet First Guide to Programming Languages

Feb 11 1992 The Good Old Days

Dec 11 1992 The Gospel According To St. Hacker

Feb 10 1992 The Great Quux Poem Collection

Feb 10 1992 The Hackers Song

Feb 11 1992 The Halting Problem is Solvable

Feb 10 1992 The Impossible Code

Dec 13 1984 The Kingdom of Transformation

Aug 27 1982 The Laws of Computing

Mar 22 1985 The Laws of Computing (reprise)

Dec 11 1992 The Nine Types of Users

Feb 10 1992 The Paging Game Game Rules

Mar 3 1989 The Parable of the Two Programmers (a german translation from Volker Grabsch)

Feb 10 1992 The Past Is Prologue

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

Mar 22 1985 The Rules of Netnews Debating

Dec 11 1992 The Sex Life Of An Electron

Feb 10 1992 The Structured Programmer's Soliloquy

Dec 20 1991 The Sun'll Come Up Tomorrow

Dec 19 1991 The Ten Commandments for C Programmers

Feb 10 1992 The Toaster Happiness Koan

Jan 25 1990 The Truth About GNU

Dec 1 1992 The UNIX Guru Maintenance Manual

Apr 1 1985 The UNIX Hierarchy

Jan 15 1992 The Usenet Oracle Speaks

Mar 24 1993 The Virus Directory (1992 edition)

Feb 10 1992 The VisiCalc Song

Nov 27 1991 The Way It Is

Mar 29 1984 To C or not to C

Jan 15 1992 To Engineer is Human

Apr 17 1985 Topics in Dog Signal Processing

Feb 11 1992 Translating Seminar Announcements

Dec 15 1992 Useful Error Message. Not

Dec 17 1992 VAX Privileges

Dec 16 1992 Venus Equilateral

Aug 28 1984 Warning to VAX users

Dec 16 1992 What's a Bit?

Feb 11 1992 X: Dangerous Virus!

Dec 11 1992 Zasm Relative Jumps

Dec 16 1992 baby.1

Dec 16 1992 bake.1

Dec 16 1992 ed.1

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

Stories for a Computer Audience

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