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It alludes to a famous message of Linus Torvalds.
by dvfjsdhgfv 12y ago
It 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.