Steven: Once un-helpful to Linux n00bs

I found a chat transcript I saved from IRC circa 1999.

In it a young n00b called “Operator” asks some very rudimentary questions ("what’s telnet?"). Ultimately we point him in the right direction, but there’s some good laughs had along the way - especially when we invite him to visit Murray’s testing machine (127.0.0.1). He’s hesitant, but eventually he starts to ping Murrays’ machine.

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