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This excellent tale has appeared many times on HN; here's dang, in 2021, listing some of the past threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29213472

Sometimes you just need to gather all the young'uns around the campfire and regale them with the tales of old, like The 500-Mile Email, or The Story of Mel.

A "modern" addition I'd make to this list is the Grug Brained Developer [0]

0: https://grugbrain.dev/

This is when I learn I’m grug brained. Great.

Today's lucky 10,000 https://xkcd.com/1053/

Is this September Endless?

Endless September, the time of the year we retell the old tales.

Wake me up when September ends?

Indeed. Seeing this on the front page is a good reminder I’ve been on this site far too long.

I think my first exposure to it was on Slashdot, and I suspect that time wasn't its first post (pun intended).

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