[HN Gopher] The kremvax hoax (1984)
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       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.
        
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