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This story is from 1991. Mentioning this in the title would be helpful.

• mattdeboard 15y ago
  A year ago there would have been no question this was a joke. Now, I'm not so sure.
  • Confusion 15y ago
    Well, my first thought was: "what hubris is this?", before taking note of the archaic name and the domain name and figuring it was probably an interesting old Usenet post. Adding [1991] would perhaps prevent someone from missing it through a similar line of thought?
    • freehunter 15y ago
      Yeah, I saw the name and [google.com] (missing the [groups.] part) and the first comment quoting the revolution... I was bracing myself.
  • lotharbot 15y ago
    it's fairly common to ask for the year to be included in submission titles that are old. It helps clarify for the reader that we're going to see something out of computer history (or general world history) rather than something brand new.