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From: Niklas Karlsson <nikke.karlsson@gmail.com>
To: Tyler Adams <coppero1237@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>,
	Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of the UNIX Beard
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 15:00:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK6BEge4kBDw8rA7qZuq80XJ5kpj=N9_qS8btRuqD7S6p7C0Eg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEuQd1Abbdu7FR_aONb=Z_8m0Yzgf9JigRX9XW4xUGJPL0yyew@mail.gmail.com>

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Unfortunately, I can't grow a proper UNIX beard. The most I can manage is a
rather scraggly goatee, so I go for clean-shaven or a bit stubbly these
days.

Niklas

Den fre 18 dec. 2020 kl 14:59 skrev Tyler Adams <coppero1237@gmail.com>:

> 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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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-18 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-18 13:56 Noel Chiappa
2020-12-18 13:58 ` Tyler Adams
2020-12-18 14:00   ` Niklas Karlsson [this message]
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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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