From Mastodon, MHoye posting at https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112615649865163136:

I haven't seen anybody mentioning it or even noticing it, like it's just the water we swim in now, but this month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of what would become a seminal, and is arguably the single most important, piece of social software ever created.

Written by Douglas McIlroy and James Hunt and released with the 5th Edition of Unix this month in 1974: diff.

https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree...