I always thought I started reading when I still lived in MD (so it would be the 1980s), but it seems he started in the 90s.
The Daily WTF can basically provide an endless supply of these stories: https://thedailywtf.com
<https://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/humor/Unix/computer.folkl...>
“Computer Stupidities”
Guy Macon compiled a file that contained a huge number of concatenated UseNet insults. The Insult File.
It doesn't have any bad words, and used to pass all filters: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/92h0y0/comment/e...
That story shows something that even "network aware" people didn't realize for awhile - you could have MORE than just a LAN, it was possible to have routers and they could forward broadcasts....
> > Could you submit a PR?
> Nope. It would take me quite a while to get everything up and running, in order to insert a try catch, seeing as I have no idea how your project is structured, or what requirements you have for pullrequests.
> Someone else who usually works with webpack-cli should be able to fix this issue in a matter of minutes.
https://github.com/webpack/webpack-cli/issues/962#issuecomme...