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I seem to recall software having credits in the eighties and nineties

• layer8 2y ago
  This having stopped is partly a side-effect of the “eternal beta” state of software.
• cryptoz 2y ago
  “Thomas Knoll” is forever imprinted in my memory.
• jhbadger 2y ago
  In part because programs back then were written by one or at most a handful of people that could be easily credited in the "About" box or equivalent. If you wanted a list of the authors of say Microsoft Excel or Adobe Illustrator today, the issue is that literally thousands of programmers contributed to them.