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Alas, before September... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
by jondwillis 6y ago
Alas, before September... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
- clankyclanker 6y agoI believe that's provably false. Here, we have Mockapetris and Dunlap reflecting on rolling out DNS to UC Berkeley (the B in BSD) between 1985 and 1988 [0, 1]: > Educating even the sophisticated Berkeley user community on the new form of [DNS] addressing turned out to be a major task. They're complaining about how some of the most technically inclined users and researchers at one of the most technically advanced organizations couldn't RTFM. It seems like, depending on your perspective, the Eternal September might've started a bit early that decade. 0: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/52324.52338 https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/52324.52338 1: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA203901.pdf https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA203901.pdf