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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by variaga on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:54PM (#24237774)
The copyright on the page says 2013, but I think this was actually written in 1989 ("20 years ago", "1969")
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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by aaron695 on Saturday August 22, 2020 @10:05AM (#24244224)
1991

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/11.79.html

Not sure if it was joking about being from computerworld?

It's not in this edition -

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sXM8jj29gfIC

Conspiracy -- Linus started Linux as an April fools joke from this April fools joke.

"This has been brewing since april 1991"

https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/524692/linus_torvalds...

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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by dang on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:39PM (#24238165)
Nice. I found https://web.archive.org/web/19991009073514/http://www.stokel... but clear cues in the text are always better.

Edit: hmm. They say over 20 years. That probably means later than 1989 but not 1999.

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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by variaga on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:57PM (#24237796)
also really classy to put their own copyright notice on a document "found on usenet and the author could not be determined"
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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by djsumdog on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:31PM (#24238103)
probably just a standard footer that wraps everything
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Re:Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a pra... by variaga on Friday August 21, 2020 @03:41PM (#24238181)
Yeah, probably, but that still doesn't make it right.
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