There's a lot of blinkered and self-serving historical revisionism in that account. Two problems, just for starters: comp.lang.c didn't invent FAQ postings; i

There's a lot of blinkered and self-serving historical revisionism in that account. Two problems, just for starters: comp.lang.c didn't invent FAQ postings; it wasn't even Usenet that invented them. And frequently asked questions were and are not necessarily novice questions. So do not take it as gospel.