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

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 13 points 2 years 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 12 points 2 years ago

Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos

[–] hello_cruel_world@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years 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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