> This piece was found on Usenet. This is fiction, not reality. Always remember that this is not true. It's really a joke, right? -- Editor
Nah, I refuse to believe it. Death to the author. Poe's Law and all that.
Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
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Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#12The copyright on the page says 2013, but I think this was actually written in 1989 ("20 years ago", "1969")
Nice. I found https://web.archive.org/web/19991009073514/http://www.stokel... but clear cues in the text are always better.
Edit: hmm. They say over 20 years. That probably means later than 1989 but not 1999.
Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#13Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#14"Two of the most famous products of Berkeley are LSD and Unix. I don’t think that is a coincidence."
Nice. Does this mean to be a successful Unix Admin you also need to be an accomplished psychonaut?
Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#15Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#16>Dennis Ritchie said: "What really tore it (just when ADA was catching on), was that Bjarne Stroustrup caught onto our joke
Lol.
Re: Thompson, Ritchie and Kernighan admit that Unix was a prank (1989)
#17The copyright on the page says 2013, but I think this was actually written in 1989 ("20 years ago", "1969")
1991
http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/11.79.html
Not sure if it was joking about being from computerworld?
It's not in this edition -
https://books.google.com.au/books?id=sXM8jj29gfIC
Conspiracy -- Linus started Linux as an April fools joke from this April fools joke.
"This has been brewing since april 1991"
https://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/524692/linus_torvalds...