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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by ajmurmann on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @06:49PM (#49014529)
This is odd. So you are saying wikipedia kept getting it wrong for a long time but now the announcement has it wrong and wikipedia is correct?
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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by justin66 on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @07:50PM (#49015065)
I cannot imagine why you find the statements above odd but compare and contrast:

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_C._Dvorak&ol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Dvorak

Enough scrolling through the edit history and you could determine when wikipedia finally got their shit together on his birthdate.

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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by antonvs on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @08:34PM (#49015387)
The odd part is that the announcement used the same erroneous date that Wikipedia used to have. Perhaps someone forgot to refresh their cache for a couple of years.
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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by aidenn0 on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @11:31PM (#49016572)
More likely they wrote the obit several years ago. That's not uncommon.
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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by ajmurmann on Thursday July 23, 2026 @01:01PM (#49024801)
And didn't bother updating the age in a 2-sentence announcement?
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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by Randomno on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @11:46PM (#49016685)
It was changed to '46 today
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