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Is Your Son a Computer Hacker? (inadequacy.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by oatscoop@midwest.social to c/antiquememesroadshow@lemmy.world

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A classic from the now defunct Adequacy.org Made the rounds in 2001, and even appeared on The Screen Savers

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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 16 points 1 year ago

AMD is a third-world based company who make inferior, "knock-off" copies of American processor chips.

Yup, that checks out.

[–] konalt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Popular hacker software includes "Comet Cursor", "Bonzi Buddy" and "Flash".

I really can't tell if this is a really good joke or not

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

This is ancient proto-copypasta from the early days of textfile/bbs sites. I remember seeing this on &TOTSE shortly after 9/11

[–] scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago

Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

God, as much as I like this joke, my parents would crucify me if they read this back in the day. They were incredibly impressionable and didn't trust me.

[–] hello_cruel_world@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos

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