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Why HN was slow and how Rtm fixed it

(ycombinator.com)
257 points pg | 1 comments | 19 Jan 11 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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allwein ◴[19 Jan 11 19:56 UTC] No.2121014[source]▶
When I read this headline, my immediate thought was "Oh, he must have forgotten to shut down the copy of his worm that was running on the HN servers."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

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mahmud ◴[20 Jan 11 02:49 UTC] No.2122392[source]▶
Please, retire that stupid "joke". It's 22 years too old.
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1. mcantor ◴[20 Jan 11 04:09 UTC] No.2122601[source]▶
First time I had heard it.