[mwilliamson]

My favourite date is Erlang Day, after a request from pg to have more technical content: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11

[dang]

There was an Erlang Day sequel later that summer: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-08-20, which I remember because I unintentionally started it and pg got mad at me.

IIRC, the front page before that was filled with stories about _why (they're split between https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-08-19 and https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-08-20 now), and people were complaining about that. I happened to have an Erlang article I'd already been meaning to post, so I posted it and it triggered a deluge, followed by complaints:

Ask NH: How annoying is Erlang day? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776789 - Aug 2009 (0 comments)

Ask HN: Why is all the news about Erlang today? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776622 - Aug 2009 (4 comments)

Are we celebrating Erlang's birthday or just that Erlang hackers cracked HN? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776519 - Aug 2009 (4 comments)

Poll: What do you think of Erlang on Hacker News? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776427 - Aug 2009 (3 comments)

Enough Erlang - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776316 - Aug 2009 (9 comments)

Purge Complete: No more Erlang, _why, or Zed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776196 - Aug 2009 (25 comments)

I hate the Erlang days around here..... - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776116 - Aug 2009 (9 comments)

Ask HN: Are we intentionally voting on Erlang articles? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=776047 - Aug 2009 (6 comments)

... followed by pg, after a long day at Demo Day, manually killing all those threads at dinner using his iPhone. Nobody knew about that latter bit.

Ask HN: How did the Erlang articles disappear on HN yesterday? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=778319 - Aug 2009 (11 comments)

I always wondered why I couldn't find any trace of this in the archives, as I distinctly remember the scolding I got! I've gone and unkilled them now, which should restore roughly what it looked like.

[gala8y]

That's too funny.

Unfortunately, jumping across timelines reminds us of digital decay, a very real thing, when you try to visit some old stuff.