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Re:A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS by amiga386 on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @10:06AM (#39990895)
Sad.

They (THEY(TM)) also took away typing "man" at 00:01 (or later 00:30) would print "gimme gimme gimme"

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/405783/why-does-man...

And they took away the "MAKE LOVE" (returns "NOT WAR?") easter egg in MIT's TECO editor on the PDP-6

https://www.acriticalhit.com/make-love-not-war-first-softwar...

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Re:A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS by wasteduniverse on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @11:28AM (#39991810)
What does the "They(TM)" mean?
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Re:A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS by wongarsu on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @12:36PM (#39992683)
they™, as in "the people behind it all", "the cabal", "the man in black", "the nameless people in suits", etc, as opposed to the regular use of "they". Here probably boring business people
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Re:A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS by hyperhopper on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @12:35PM (#39992672)
An out group of people to be blamed.

In this case, the lame corporate kind of people.

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Re:A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS by amiga386 on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:31PM (#39993436)
It's my perspective, as lamenting the loss of easter eggs and other fun quirks is easier to phrase as some kind of fun police cracking down on individuality in software, to further a scheme to trap everyone in an anodyne corporate hellhole. But in truth, the author who put the "gimme gimme gimme" easter egg in place was also the person who removed it. There is no "they" responsible (also, TINC)
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Re:A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS by whartung on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @01:54PM (#39993737)
They. Them. Not just they, but capital They.

Everyone knows who They(tm) are, especially Them.

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Re:A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS by IggleSniggle on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @03:20PM (#39994700)
I swear we really have no idea
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Re:A cheeky intern nearly turned MS-DOS into NSFW-DOS by Kerb_ on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @06:11PM (#39996236)
The nonbinary people are behind it
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