From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Cc: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of the UNIX Beard
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 08:56:00 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201218135600.2674218C08B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)
> From: Tyler Adams
> We all know and love the UNIX beard, but I can't find anything on how
> the beards started other than an old photo of Ken and Dennis
I'm not sure the term is Unix-specific. At a fairly early stage, people who
worked on the ARPANET/Internet (when PDP-10's were still the 'usual' host, and
Unix systems were just starting to beceome common) were jokingly known as
'network grey-beards': the prototypical one being Jon Postel. (Vint Verf's
beard was too tidy to qualify, IIRC!)
Noel
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2020-12-18 13:56 Noel Chiappa [this message]
2020-12-18 13:58 ` Tyler Adams
2020-12-18 14:00 ` Niklas Karlsson
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2020-12-18 12:28 Tyler Adams
2020-12-19 6:43 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-01-10 20:31 ` Dave Horsfall
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