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Saving The UNIX HUMOR Legacy?

Posted by Cliff on from the resurrecting-a-net.laugh dept.

belbo asks: "To my utter dismay I've discovered that the great UNIX HUMOR archive has vanished from its rather obscure home at Geocities. UNIX HUMOR has been quite a vast archive of UNIX related humor from various decades (e.g. some -long- threads from a.r.s) It's not only been funny but has also been a great introduction into the UNIX way of thinking, laughing and solving problems. So, after much unsuccessful searching via Google and its cache, I want to ask the Slashdot community: does anyone run a mirror of this archive? Or has a tarball of it? I would love to host it on my server." Has this resource been moved to a new official site? If not, looks like you have one offer for a new home.

36 comments

  1. a.s.r by mirabilos · · Score: 1

    I wonder whether de.asr is also digested somewhere...
    If you know of it, please point me to it. Thanks

    (Although most of dasr prefer not to read /. I know)

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    1. Re:a.s.r by __past__ · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Well, quite a lot of dasr appears in de.alt.netdigest. But everything but the original is definitly !recovery.

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    2. Re:a.s.r by mirabilos · · Score: 1

      He spoke of the contents of the archive
      (which I until now didn't really know of).

      He said there was much of asr in it.

      Now I wanted to know about dasr.

      Understood? I didn't reply to the question,
      ok, but I asked an on-topic question myself.
      Duh.

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  2. Some links by forsetti · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've never seen THE Unix Humor archive, but here is a link:
    http://www.geek-girl.com/unix.html
    Scroll to the bottom - there is a unix humor section. Hope that helps!

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  3. You lack initiative by Yarn · · Score: 5, Informative

    Try the wayback machine

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    1. Re:You lack initiative by Ivan+the+Terrible · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      What a snot. Perhaps the poster just didn't know about the Wayback machine.

    2. Re:You lack initiative by Prowl · · Score: 1

      is slashdotting the wayback machine such a wise thing to do?

      sod it, i'll follow the link anyway.

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    3. Re:You lack initiative by JabberWokky · · Score: 2
      Of course, only the page of *links* is there, none of the actual humor pieces. *Sigh*.

      But, at least you might track down the old webmaster from that.

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    4. Re:You lack initiative by 42forty-two42 · · Score: 2, Informative

      They are there if you have javascript.

    5. Re:You lack initiative by mirabilos · · Score: 1

      Ok, give my
      wget
      lynx
      links
      w3m
      javascript, please.
      Thank you.

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      My Karma isn't excellent, damn it! (And /. still does not get UTF-8 right in 2012. Wow.)
    6. Re:You lack initiative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      hee hee... even the geocities pop-ups are archived.

  4. a little OT, but a great place for unix humor by b-side.org · · Score: 2, Interesting

    you gotta wade through the cock jokes, but every few days jerkcity has some truly nerdy unix humor. examples here and here.

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  5. Unix Humor, and where to find it. by AnalogBoy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Install Linux.

    Seriously, the wayback machine(when it functions properly) is great for things like this. The link to its latest edition is here

    Enjoy your mirroring experience.

    1. Re:Unix Humor, and where to find it. by hyperstation · · Score: 1

      Score: -1, Misleading

      too bad it's just full of links to the old site (which doesn't exist)

    2. Re:Unix Humor, and where to find it. by AnalogBoy · · Score: 2

      Actually, the link I gave, works.. I just confirmed it.. didn't visit all the jokes, just some.. but they worked.

    3. Re:Unix Humor, and where to find it. by hyperstation · · Score: 1

      i did have javascript off, turned it on, and then it seemed like it would work. but then (at least for the ones i tried) i just got the "Not in Archive" message.... *sigh*

  6. Here it is by jcasey · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Here's the link via the wayback machine.

    lol - enjoy !

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    1. Re:Here it is by __past__ · · Score: 1
      Not that any of the links on this page seem to work...

      BTW, I guess in a case like this, DMOZ seems to win over Google in being "your friend".

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    2. Re:Here it is by damiam · · Score: 4, Informative

      Actually, Google is still your friend.

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    3. Re:Here it is by pne · · Score: 2

      Not that any of the links on this page seem to work...

      <pointer mode="parrot">They are there if you have javascript.</pointer> The page uses JavaScript to replace URLs in HREFs with URLs that run through the Wayback machine. Alternatively, you can copy the URL to the clipboard and paste it into the Location bar after the Wayback machine URL start. Or use "G" with lynx to modify the current URL and go to the resulting page.

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  7. Other Sources... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    There's a lot of old UNIX humor at:
    http://www.textfiles.com/humor/COMPUTER

  8. Re:pffft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Maybe you didn't read "So, after much unsuccessful searching via Google and its cache, I want to ask the Slashdot community: does anyone run a mirror of this archive? Or has a tarball of it? I would love to host it on my server."

    I'm guessing you are the AC telling people to choke and die for suggesting other sources of humor.

  9. But is it worth saving? by nosferatu-man · · Score: 3, Funny

    % make sense
    make: don't know how to make sense. Stop

    Perhaps the world would be better off if these "gems" were forgotten?

    Peace,
    (jfb)

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    1. Re:But is it worth saving? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      % make "nosferatu-man quit bitching"
      make: don't now how to make nosferatu-man quit bitching. Stop.

  10. Ask the BofH by ader · · Score: 2, Interesting

    BOFHweb has a lot of archived a.s.r material (and a lot of macho bragging about killing lusers in various creative and entirely improbably ways - you just know these guys wouldn't even dare to complain at McD's).

    Ade_
    /

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    1. Re:Ask the BofH by RedWizzard · · Score: 2

      Simon Travaglia (who came up with the BOFH) was a Unix admin at the university I went to when I was there. He wasn't unusually grumpy for a Unix admin.

  11. Unix humour? You mean... by GLevangelist · · Score: 1

    ..."man sex" etc?

    Sigh...

  12. Web Archive Consortium meets Unix Humor archive by adikt · · Score: 1
    I recalled a story on /. a couple of weeks back about the Web Archive Consortium .
    I realise this has been mentioned in this thread, but here is a little more information.
    A quick search there revealed the archive for the Unix Humor Archive, and also the URL to the last archived (working) URL of the humor archive.

    Hopefully this is what you all were after :)

    adikt