The following is a selection of great (and generally nerdy) jokes I collected in the early 1990s, mainly from various Usenet newsgroups.

Science

• How to read scientific papers.
• What did the Martians think of the Mars pathfinder?
• Why God would never get tenure at the university.

• What you always wanted to know about FORTRAN (with a rebuttal).
• Write in C!
• Programmers, and computer scientists.
• What kind of programmer are you?
• The joys of SCSI.
• And the classic description of a great computer crash.
• How to use ICBMs on Unix machines.
• What if HAL was a Pentium?
• Thirteen guidelines to write about the net.

• The difference between men and women
• Why did the Chicken cross the road?