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Ancient Web: The Bastard Operator From Hell Is Still the Sysadmin Story Everyone Remembers

The BOFH web archive preserves Simon Travaglia's long-running Bastard Operator From Hell stories, a foundational piece of sysadmin humor built from backups, users, bosses, printers, helpdesks, network failures, and weaponized technical competence.

Ancient Web: psDooM Let Sysadmins Shoot Processes

psDooM turned Unix process management into a Doom level where running processes appeared as monsters, wounding them changed priority, and killing them could terminate the process.

Ancient Web: ARPA.NET Baked a Cake for 1,000 Days of Sun Uptime

ARPA.NET preserved a tiny Unix-administration milestone page celebrating a Sun SPARC IPX that ran continuously for 1,000 days before a power outage finally ended the experiment.