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.

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.

You could have discovered that story yesterday :-)

> 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.