40 years ago, my dad went viral on Usenet with this little gem: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
The Story of Mel

@wendynather I have that in hard copy from back in the day. Nice to see the jargon file, and it's associated lore still circulating out there.
@tealeg I printed out many items from the Jargon File and hung them in my office back around 1991. Of course, that was back when lowly developers still *had* offices.
@joeygibson I’ve been working remotely for most of the last 15 years, I have my own office :-) I have John McCarthy and Djikstra on my walls. The hackers dictionary is in the bookcase
@tealeg I've been 100% remote for three years, and about 85% remote in the four years prior to that. While part of me misses The Old Days™, back in the early 90s, when I had a spacious office, with floor-to-ceiling, windows, and a door that closed, I wouldn't trade that for what I have now.