John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No Agenda has passed

Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by gasgdsadgfa on Thursday July 23, 2026 @12:26AM (#49016921)

There's also no documented close lineal connection between John C. Dvorak and August Dvorak, any more than his birthplace being Los Angeles. Both of which are blindly-repeated, unsourced (and untrue) Wikipedia inventions.

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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by jl6 on Thursday July 23, 2026 @02:58AM (#49017836)

Wikipedia sources the claim to an article by Jerry Pournelle in BYTE magazine, from 1985.

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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by qingcharles on Thursday July 23, 2026 @10:56AM (#49022677)

Here's the snippet in question from the magazine:

https://imgur.com/a/8SVQGnj

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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by gasgdsadgfa on Thursday July 23, 2026 @08:21PM (#49029839)

Wikipedia and Pournelle are wrong, here's John Charles Dvorak himself on November 27, 1988:

https://ibb.co/x8RJvWyX

"I'm told there is a relationship, but I can't prove it."

John knows who his uncles are. His father is Walter Charles Dvorak born in Minneapolis to John Steve Dvorak (also born in Minneapolis). August Dvorak and all of his siblings (none of them Walter) were all born in McLeod County to IMMIGRANT Joseph Dvorak. If there's a connection it goes back to Bohemia.

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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by jl6 on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:13AM (#49033032)

Is that from the San Francisco Examiner? Do you have sources for the family information you mention?

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Re:John C Dvorak – Legendary Tech Columnist and host of No A... by gasgdsadgfa on Friday July 24, 2026 @04:06PM (#49040975)

Yes it is, and yes, several primary sources that anyone can easily find if they're looking in the proper places.

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