From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jcapp@anteil.com (Jim Capp) Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 07:42:04 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX turns forty In-Reply-To: <20090605041836.GA26815@bitmover.com> References: <200906050348.n553mr9N017809@cuzuco.com> <20090605041836.GA26815@bitmover.com> Message-ID: Larry, How about a virtual birthday "card" where we make a site that people from all over the world can sign on and leave personalized "best wishes"? To promote it, we design a modest logo that people can place on their websites, linking to the site, allowing visitors to read the various "cards", and encouraging them to leave their own messages. We could add an /etc/passwd style listing of "users" with their own / etc/motd or "wishes of the day". We could bootstrap it with the original passwd entries, recognizing and saying "thank you" to the creators and contibutors of UNIX, in a wiki style with proper monitoring of course. What do you think? Jim On Jun 5, 2009, at 12:18 AM, lm at bitmover.com (Larry McVoy) wrote: > If there was some bright person here who had an idea as to how we > might > honor these guys, in a way they would like, let's go. They are geeks > and we are too, seems like maybe someone could come up with an idea. > > If that idea requires money then let me know, millions isn't in the > cards, but drop a couple of zeros and maybe we can do it. > > Regardless of all that. kudos to Brian, Dennis, and Ken. And Joe, > because I still do my papers in troff, our invoices are in troff, > and our logo is in troff. Our website is in troff -ms format, > I wrote a perl script that generates the html. > > --lm > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:48:53PM -0400, Brian S Walden wrote: >> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133570 >> >>> So when do the official celebrations begin? What's a good estimate >>> of the month and date in 1969 when it all began? >>> >>> Tim Newsham >> _______________________________________________ >> TUHS mailing list >> TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org >> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitkeeper.com > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >