[HN Gopher] The kremvax hoax (1984) ___________________________________________________________________ The kremvax hoax (1984) Author : classichasclass Score : 62 points Date : 2023-04-29 07:51 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (godfatherof.nl) (TXT) w3m dump (godfatherof.nl) | romanhn wrote: | Fascinating to see a frequent use of emoticons in replies from | early 1984, only two years after their invention. | TedDoesntTalk wrote: | I don't recall anyone calling them emoticons back then. | NoZebra120vClip wrote: | I believe we knew them as "smileys". | greggsy wrote: | Page is unreadable on ios, and reader doesn't render. Is there a | reformatted version? Seems interesting. | neonate wrote: | Any better? | | https://archive.ph/dYaRd | | http://web.archive.org/web/20230326102052/https://godfathero... | giantrobot wrote: | Something about the page's structure causes Safari's reader | mode to only display the first quoted section but no other | part of the content. Those mirrors don't do anything to help | the page's structure unfortunately. | m463 wrote: | I've wondered if some commercial websites that behave this | way do it "accidentally on purpose" | jeroenhd wrote: | Interesting; Reader Mode works fine in GNOME's WebKit-based | browser. Seems like an Apple specific bug, perhaps you should | report it. | ChainOfFools wrote: | Whenever I try to explain the joy of bangpaths to the youth of | today the!message!always!gets!lost | m463 wrote: | Reminds me of an old "fake traceroute" site that would show a | link between the whitehouse and the kremlin. | | I was thinking you could probably implement it with ipfilter | firewall rules pretty easily. | | if you had control of for example 192.168.0.2, and it routed | through your 192.168.0.1, you could reject packets by ttl value | with src ip being whitehouse.gov and kremlin.ru and then any | chain you wanted until ttl > 192.168.0.2. | | EDIT: maybe | https://github.com/blechschmidt/fakeroute/blob/master/fakero... | MarkusWandel wrote: | What the article doesn't particularly emphasize is that "kgbvax" | etc. wasn't a troll along the line of "OMG they're stealing our | technology". It was just that a lot of Usenet nodes of the day | had "vax" at the end of their name because, well, that's what | everyone was running for internet nodes in those days (running | 4.2BSD or so, the definitive Unix to have in those days). | triyambakam wrote: | I hate April fools. It's not universally celebrated so it's | always unclear what is actually a prank. | aaron695 wrote: | [dead] | TedDoesntTalk wrote: | April Fools pranks cause the needless suffering and anxiety of | many for the joy of one person. I especially hate IT and work- | related pranks. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-05-01 23:01 UTC)