1968 on adopting standard notation: https://assets.octodon.social/media_attachments/files/002/76...

(judging by the picture of Susie at her desk, development environments' handwriting recognition was awesome in 1968, which explains Landin's 1966 comment in Next 700:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf p. 160

> "[The offside rule] is based on vertical alignment, not character width, and hence is equally appropriate in handwritten, typeset or typed texts.")

Ironically the only thing that is ever standard about standards is that the same XKCD comic will always be brought up

wow, you got downvoted pretty hard & fast. tried to help coutneract because while that joke is played out - there's a reason that joke is played out.

Yes, because people post it robotically whenever the words "standard" or "new" come up.