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My favorite piece of Unix curiosa to add in this thread is that there was once, briefly, a Unix where the root user was called "avatar". This amused me when I
by INTPenis 8y ago
My favorite piece of Unix curiosa to add in this thread is that there was once, briefly, a Unix where the root user was called "avatar".
This amused me when I found out about it so I started using it as my username on IRC. Meaning the name that shows up in your vhost when you join channels, back in the days people who joined with root@host would be yelled at for using IRC as root. So I joined with avatar@host and no one cared. :)
- raldi 8y agoYeah, I used Windows NT for a while in the late 90's and named my user account "root" just for cognitive dissonnace. But then when I'd launch an IRC client, it would put that in my identification string and I'd get kicked off of channels (or whole servers) with the message, "Don't IRC as root."