I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front)

Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by xelxebar on Sunday July 12, 2026 @01:51AM (#48878677)

9front is a fork of Plan 9, the operating system that runs Jurassic Park[0]. Stanley Leiber is a prominent contributor, albeit whose existence is humourously-but-seriously-maybe debated. The whole community has a post-ironic humor that is very GenZ but before GenZ was cool or even born.

The Plan 9 Foundation commissions local artists for it's swag at the annual workshops. I'm guessing this article is tangentially related.

I daily drive 9front, so I might be biased.

[0]:https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1.1

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by ButlerianJihad on Sunday July 12, 2026 @02:47AM (#48878941)

You must be joking about Jurassic Park, right?

The systems in Jurassic Park are clearly and obviously running IRIX on SGI workstations, and the girl character says as much when she recognizes Unix. The file system navigator app is famous from its appearance there.

Plan 9 has never been portrayed as a running system in Hollywood, because it has never run any system of consequence in real life either.

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by cyber_kinetist on Sunday July 12, 2026 @03:08AM (#48879033)

... it's a joke. A perfect example of how Plan 9 humor works.

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by ButlerianJihad on Sunday July 12, 2026 @03:23AM (#48879104)

I am unclear what the joke is here. GP appeared to be sincere because there is a still image from the film embedded in the FAQ for no reason.

The “joke” is not part of the FAQ. So, what actually is the joke? Has the joke been made in public forums before today? We're unable to find prior art concerning this joke or meme. Does "plan9 humor" consist mostly of making shit up?

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by DOGMATICA on Sunday July 12, 2026 @03:35AM (#48879161)

the joke is that plan 9’s not UNIX, and thus does not run Jurassic Park. the absurdity arises from the fact that using such a capable operating system for dinosaur husbandry (im told this is what jurassic park is about) would be, frankly, philistine in nature.

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by ButlerianJihad on Sunday July 12, 2026 @08:51AM (#48880788)

So, falsehoods are jokes now? Hey guess what? I wrote xscreensaver! Haha, funny joke, right, philistine? Hilarious!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistinism

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by q3k on Sunday July 12, 2026 @10:29AM (#48881476)

> So, falsehoods are jokes now?

Yes. It says so in the AT&T SysV R4 User's Manual.

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by ori_b on Sunday July 12, 2026 @07:46PM (#48886079)

So, which chicken, exactly, crossed the road? Which road? When? What evidence do you have?

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by benj111 on Sunday July 12, 2026 @04:20AM (#48879358)

If you look at the image from the film you will note it has the cat(?) clock of plan 9 fame. So its fairly obvious that the image is doctored.

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by khazhoux on Sunday July 12, 2026 @09:11AM (#48880936)

Also her screen is running Doom, which wasn’t out when Jurassic Park was released (1989).

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by tombert on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:44AM (#48882036)

I know I'm probably missing a joke, but Jurassic Park came out in 1993.

Still, Doom was released after the movie, so unlikely it would be in Jurassic Park.

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by wizzwizz4 on Sunday July 12, 2026 @12:04PM (#48882183)

I don't know about the film, but the Jurassic Park novel is set in 1989.

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by pjmlp on Sunday July 12, 2026 @04:24AM (#48879373)

In fact, it was quickly superseded by Inferno and Limbo, in AT&T race to compete with JavaOS, which is why Dis also got initial support to convert between bytecode formats.

Overall, after the sale to Vita Nuova, one could assert Inferno has had much more real commercial use than Plan 9 has ever had outside Bell Labs.

Yet Plan 9 fans seldom acknowledge it was a transition between UNIX and Inferno.

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by mattmanser on Sunday July 12, 2026 @02:47AM (#48878936)

Is that gen z humour?

As it reads more to me like it's Douglas Adams humour, i.e. 1980s humour.

British, post-Python absurdist humour or whatever you'd call it.

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by sznio on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:01AM (#48879842)

as a gen z - same thing

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Re:I Did Not Kill Stanley Lieber: How to Draw (With 9front) by stavros on Sunday July 12, 2026 @01:52AM (#48878689)

Ahh I see, thank you.

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