[TUHS] History of the UNIX Beard
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Fri Dec 18 23:56:00 AEST 2020
> 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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