If it makes you feel better, I'm so old I read the title and 3/4 of the original story before I realised I'd read it before.

I think this is enough of a classic to be widely known even among younger people. I'm 23 (doing math msc) and I think all the CS people that I know would instantly recognize the 500 miles title.

Though I do somewhat envy the possibility of having read the article close to publication and feel in some sense part of the history when it crops up again like this.

It’s a HN classic, any HN addict knows it.

> Reading the title and knowing exactly what this is about kind of makes me feel old to be honest.

Let's go for experienced and ready to educate the young'uns.

You could have discovered that story yesterday :-)