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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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[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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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