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The copyright on the page says 2013, but I think this was actually written in 1989 ("20 years ago", "1969")

• variaga 6y ago
  also really classy to put their own copyright notice on a document "found on usenet and the author could not be determined"
  • djsumdog 6y ago
    probably just a standard footer that wraps everything
    • variaga 6y ago
      Yeah, probably, but that still doesn't make it right.
• dang 6y ago
  Nice. I found https://web.archive.org/web/19991009073514/http://www.stokely.com/lighter.side/unix.prank.html https://web.archive.org/web/19991009073514/http://www.stokel... but clear cues in the text are always better. Edit: hmm. They say over 20 years. That probably means later than 1989 but not 1999.
• aaron695 6y ago
  1991 http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/11.79.html http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/11.79.html Not sure if it was joking about being from computerworld? It's not in this edition - https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sXM8jj29gfIC https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sXM8jj29gfIC Conspiracy -- Linus started Linux as an April fools joke from this April fools joke. "This has been brewing since april 1991" https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/524692/linus_torvalds_celebrates_22_years_linux_nostalgic_message https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/524692/linus_torvalds...