Saving The UNIX HUMOR Legacy?

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Saving The UNIX HUMOR Legacy?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday January 29, 2002 @07:53AM 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.

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a.s.r by mirabilos · 2002-01-29 07:57 · 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 Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-29 08:52 · Score: -1, Flamebait
  
  Oh my god! That was such a retarded post! Did you learn to read in a crack house? The guy just said that he was actually looking for a mirror of this archive. Do we have to spell it for you? Please choke and die!
2. Re:a.s.r by __past__ · 2002-01-29 09:03 · 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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3. Re:a.s.r by mirabilos · 2002-01-29 09:23 · 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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Some links by forsetti · 2002-01-29 08:04 · 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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1. Re:Some links by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-29 08:54 · Score: -1, Flamebait
  
  Oh my god! That was such a retarded post! Did you learn to read in a crack house? The guy just said that he was actually looking for a mirror of this archive. Do we have to spell it for you? Please choke and die!
You lack initiative by Yarn · 2002-01-29 08:05 · Score: 5, Informative

Try the wayback machine

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1. Re:You lack initiative by Ivan+the+Terrible · 2002-01-29 08:16 · Score: 0, Flamebait
  
  What a snot. Perhaps the poster just didn't know about the Wayback machine.
2. Re:You lack initiative by Prowl · 2002-01-29 09:00 · 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 · 2002-01-29 10:13 · 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 · 2002-01-29 10:34 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  They are there if you have javascript.
5. Re:You lack initiative by mirabilos · 2002-01-29 10:46 · Score: 1
  
  Ok, give my
  wget
  lynx
  links
  w3m
  javascript, please.
  Thank you.
  
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6. Re:You lack initiative by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-29 10:48 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Why don't you download the opensource JavaScript library from Netscape and do it yourself whiner? There's no reason that a text browser couldn't or shouldn't do DHTML.
7. Re:You lack initiative by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-30 07:06 · Score: -1, Troll
  
  How about using the best browser out there?
  Oh! Wait! Its from MS! Now thats a reason!
8. Re:You lack initiative by Anonymous Coward · 2002-02-01 14:53 · Score: 0
  
  hee hee... even the geocities pop-ups are archived.
a little OT, but a great place for unix humor by b-side.org · 2002-01-29 08:13 · 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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1. Re:a little OT, but a great place for unix humor by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-29 11:46 · Score: -1, Flamebait
  
  I bet you love wading through the cocks.
  huahuahuaugauhguaguaugaugauhguahuaugfaugauh!
Unix Humor, and where to find it. by AnalogBoy · 2002-01-29 08:17 · 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 · 2002-02-01 09:55 · 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 · 2002-02-01 10:07 · 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 · 2002-02-01 10:28 · 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*
pffft by MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM · 2002-01-29 08:23 · Score: -1

Has this resource been moved to a new official site? If not, looks like you have one offer for a new home.

Oh my god! That was retard. Cliff, did you learn to read in a crack house? The guy just said that he was actually looking for a mirror of this archive. Do we have to spell it for you? Please choke and die!
1. Re:pffft by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-29 16:01 · 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.
Here it is by jcasey · 2002-01-29 08:54 · Score: 0, Redundant

Here's the link via the wayback machine.

lol - enjoy !

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1. Re:Here it is by __past__ · 2002-01-29 09:10 · 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 · 2002-01-29 13:39 · Score: 4, Informative
  
  Actually, Google is still your friend.
  
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3. Re:Here it is by pne · 2002-01-31 03:49 · 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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Other Sources... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-29 09:28 · Score: 3, Informative

There's a lot of old UNIX humor at:
http://www.textfiles.com/humor/COMPUTER
But is it worth saving? by nosferatu-man · 2002-01-29 16:44 · 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 Ars+Technica · 2002-01-30 17:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Who asked you?
  
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2. Re:But is it worth saving? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-01-30 17:43 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  % make "nosferatu-man quit bitching" make: don't now how to make nosferatu-man quit bitching. Stop.
Ask the BofH by ader · 2002-01-29 21:37 · 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 · 2002-02-02 11:27 · 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.
You must have missed it! by sinator · 2002-01-29 23:32 · Score: -1

A few weeks ago, we decided UNIX wasn't funny.

So we took everything down.

It was a pretty big decision, I'm surprised you weren't in on it.

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Unix humour? You mean... by GLevangelist · 2002-01-31 06:47 · Score: 1

..."man sex" etc?

Sigh...
Web Archive Consortium meets Unix Humor archive by adikt · 2002-02-02 02:45 · 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