From: Tyler Adams <coppero1237@gmail.com>
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of the UNIX Beard
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:58:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEuQd1Abbdu7FR_aONb=Z_8m0Yzgf9JigRX9XW4xUGJPL0yyew@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201218135600.2674218C08B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
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I imagine there's relatives like the programmer beard, but googling "UNIX
beard" returns some examples where it seems to be a thing.
http://www.usenix.org.uk/content/unix_beards.html
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Unix%20beard
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4nt38v/how_many_of_you_have_a_unix_beard/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-do-hackers-love-beards-so-much
subtitle:
" Decoding the “Unix beard” at this year’s DefCon.
https://pthree.org/2009/11/01/get-your-unix-beard-on/
Tyler
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 3:56 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
> > 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
2020-12-18 13:58 ` Tyler Adams [this message]
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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