Look at it yet more closely even than that, however, and you'll find that it isn't the year that that operating system was invented, nor the year of its 1st Edi

Look at it yet more closely even than that, however, and you'll find that it isn't the year that that operating system was invented, nor the year of its 1st Edition, nor even the way that it counted time before 1974. It was simply a year that, in the words of one of its creators, "seemed to be as good as any" (dmr, Wired, 2001).