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[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's because the joke got updated to the newest OS version until CONFIG.SYS got entirely removed in Windows ME and it just didn't work any more.
It's originally from MS-DOS times. Earliest telling of it I know of is from 1996.

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