History of Murray:
Dramatis Personae
Operator -- a newbie
ash -- a provocateur
harms -- yours truly
[Operator] what is telnet for?
[Operator] what does it do?
[Operator] any specific thing?
[harms] Operator: RTFM
[harms] 
[harms] Telnet makes it as if you were "at" that machine
[Operator] o
[infobutt] hmmmmm... Operator, hum.. ye your right
[Operator] is that like hacking?
[ash] yeah
[Operator] kool
[Operator] i like
[ash] hacking
[harms] ash: be nice!
[Operator] Muwahahahhahahahaha
[harms] Operator: he's pulling your chain
[Operator] heh
[ash] try it... telnet to this IP: 127.0.0.1
[Operator] whose ip is that
[harms] Operator: a very special person
[Operator] i don twant it to go to sum place i dont no of
[harms] Operator: don't sweat, murray won't mind
[ash] Trust me... it's safew to hack that IP
[harms] Murray owns it
[Operator] whose murray
[ash< hahaha
[harms] Murray is a guy who used to work for InterNIC
[harms] that was the former government of the Internet
[Operator] um new at linux
[Operator] o
[infobutt] well, Operator: hum.. ye your right
[harms] So, that address is still called "Murray's"
[Operator] and y is it safe?
[harms] Operator: it was designed for testing.
ash dies
[Operator] o
[infobutt] Operator: hum.. ye your right
[Operator] hmm
[Operator] lol
[harms] besides, if you fail log in (which you won't) it's no big deal
[harms] all output goes to /dev/null
[Operator] uh
[Operator] hmm
[Operator] k
[harms] (that's null output..nowhere...nobody sees it)
[infobutt] welp... Operator: hum.. ye your right
[Operator] lol
[Operator] infobutt shut uop
[infobutt] Operator, *shrug*
[Operator] heh
[harms] i'm logged into Murray's right now.
[Operator] what software do i use?]
[harms] Operator: open up a gnome terminal
[harms] That's the little picture on your bottom panel with a screen on it
[harms] panel, i mean
[harms] then you should get a telnet window right?
[harms] then type "telnet 127.0.0.1"
[Operator] o
[infobutt] (Operator) hum.. ye your right
[Operator] i c
[harms] then you'll get a login prompt
[ash] I am logged in too! Small world heh?
[ash< is this good yet?
[Operator] eh
[harms] ash which dist does murray's say you're on?
ash dies some more
[harms] Murray's is reporting to me Red Hat
[ash] Mandrake 7.0 (air)
[harms] Hmm...
[ash] How does he do that?
[harms] That's cool
[ash] Mandrake sux...lol
[harms] ash: I think it's a very clever dist scanner
[harms] You would think that murray's would run a sco or something like that
[harms] Operator: did you do it yet?
[ash] Murray is the man
[harms] too bad...people forget their elders
[Operator] um not goin in yet
[Operator] whats the ip?
[harms] 127.0.0.1
[ash] 127.0.0.1
[ash] Murray must have the PHATEST conection... try pinging that machine of his... WOW!
[harms] Tell us when you do..we'll send you a hello once you tell us you're in
[ ash dies a few more times
[harms] ash: that's cuz he's 0ld sk00l. He was down wit' interNIC so he's g0t r00t n0de bandwidth
[Operator] infobutt : hmmm.. yeh ..its possible
[infobutt] Operator, *shrug*
[harms] Operator: you telnet yet?
[harms] ash has got ants in his pants
[Operator] hell nah
[harms] why not?
[Operator] is there a site on Murray?
[harms] No no no murray is the guy who owns it
[harms] Operator: when the net was young, it was hard for people to know if their network ties were routing correctly
[harms] They needed one uniform site to TEST their connections to.
[harms] That idea was developed by Murray Abramowitz
[harms] An MIT grad working at CERN in Switzerland
[harms] That site, 127.0.0.1 got registered
[harms] and since then has been used as an IP for testing connections.
[harms] People can ping at it all day and all night
[harms] telnet into it all day and all night
[harms] Murray has long since left,
[harms] yet the site it still called Murray's
[harms] ash, care to vouch?
[ash] telnet to it- surf to it- email from it- what ever you want... it's like a legal hakcers playground
[harms] ash: be careful around Operator he hasn't learned the differnce between hacker and cracker
[harms] if you say hacker he will think Kevin Mitnick
[ash] lol
[harms] Operator: ash means its' a legal site for testing and polling etc.
[Operator] sometimes
[harms] Just PING him...
[harms] go "ping 127.0.0.1"
[Operator] 127.0.0.1 is a loop back address
[Operator] basically its me
[Operator] so um in
[Operator] right?
[harms] Operator yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[harms] That's it
[Operator] yeah! ! ! ! !
[harms] Now our joke ends!
ash DIES THE FINAL DAMNED DEATH WITH /ME AT THE BEGGING OF THE DAMNED COMMAND
[Operator] i figured it out! ! !
[harms] Now you see why ash has been "dying" for the last 20 minutes
[Operator] Muwuaahahahhahahahahahaha
[harms] And that this whole thing about Murray was ABSOLUTE nonsense!
[harms]
[Operator] got me convinced
[ash] lif is soooo sweet
[Operator] reading is power...Muwuahahahhaha
[Operator] i just learnt sumsing