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I'm not sure I understand the title or what it's supposed to mean. Aren't men men now? Also, what is the relation between men and static HTML?
by VeejayRampay 12y ago
I'm not sure I understand the title or what it's supposed to mean. Aren't men men now? Also, what is the relation between men and static HTML?
- dvfjsdhgfv 12y agoIt alludes to a famous message of Linus Torvalds.
- noir_lord 12y agoTorvald's used it and that may be the reference here but the phrase used commonly pre-dates his usage by some time.
- Someone1234 12y agoI tried to find the origins of "remember when men were men?"/"remember when men were real men" or similar and I couldn't. Seems to pre-date the internet in general. I found a book from 1918 with a very similar quote in it. I suspect it might pre-date that even.
- tantalor 12y agoNot necessarily; it is a common English idiom going back to the 19th century. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=when+men+were+men https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=when+men+were+...
- Someone1234 12y agoGreat resource. This quote from 1841 is fun: > When men were men of manly mould, ere faith was bought, and friendship sold, and honour but a name for gold. There are older quotes but I liked that one.
- noir_lord 12y ago"When men where men" is roughly equivalent to "When men where real men" implying that today's man is not as macho as yesterdays hence less real. For example "When men where real men they could service their engines, chop firewood, build a house and lay bricks". The idea is that modern man is somehow less, it's a figure of speech more than anything. It can also hark back to when things where done the hard way (which is the implication here I think).