not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 5 months agoSomeone emailed Ken Thompson about the UNICS to UNIX namechange. Actually got a replyfiles.mastodon.socialimagemessage-square44linkfedilinkarrow-up1466arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1463arrow-down1imageSomeone emailed Ken Thompson about the UNICS to UNIX namechange. Actually got a replyfiles.mastodon.socialnot_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Linux@programming.devEnglish · 5 months agomessage-square44linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAmerica@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up22·5 months agoDang, people should email him for 15 years to find out!
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·5 months agoLet’s leave it unsettled so future nerd historians, 100 years from now, can hate us for not asking and write books speculating about it.
minus-squaremodus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·5 months agoOr post the question on a forum, then post “response deleted” and then post a third one to say “Thanks! That was super-interesting!”
minus-squareFunStuffIsFun@eviltoast.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8·5 months agoShare a screenshot, but be sure that the screenshot is a photobucket 404.
minus-squareFauxLiving@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoAnd this, for the readers in the future reading this post from their flying cars on Mars (or Roko’s Basilisk), is what we call trolling in the ancient times.
Dang, people should email him for 15 years to find out!
Let’s leave it unsettled so future nerd historians, 100 years from now, can hate us for not asking and write books speculating about it.
Or post the question on a forum, then post “response deleted” and then post a third one to say “Thanks! That was super-interesting!”
Share a screenshot, but be sure that the screenshot is a photobucket 404.
And this, for the readers in the future reading this post from their flying cars on Mars (or Roko’s Basilisk), is what we call trolling in the ancient times.