<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 9:02 PM David Arnold <<a href="mailto:davida@pobox.com">davida@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote type="cite">On 19 Jul 2025, at 12:44, Tom Perrine <<a href="mailto:tom.perrine%2Btuhs@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">tom.perrine+tuhs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><br></div><div dir="ltr"><…></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>I think there may also be a reference to Flag Day in the original printed Hacker's Dictionary, and I think in the Jargon file from which it was derived? I don't have any old copies of either around to check</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It’s in the “New Hackers Dicrionary” from 1991:</div><div><br></div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rwgb1ajk4n3sfkb2ejbd6/Photo-19-7-2025-12-54-49.jpg?rlkey=h7oujitglxgjo81ha1hfwhrg8&st=21m4tev8&dl=0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rwgb1ajk4n3sfkb2ejbd6/Photo-19-7-2025-12-54-49.jpg?rlkey=h7oujitglxgjo81ha1hfwhrg8&st=21m4tev8&dl=0</a><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v1h4myystwj0pirgcaa1z/Photo-19-7-2025-12-55-21.jpg?rlkey=klpksras27cstpsva6rce7mkl&st=e5hme9oi&dl=0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/v1h4myystwj0pirgcaa1z/Photo-19-7-2025-12-55-21.jpg?rlkey=klpksras27cstpsva6rce7mkl&st=e5hme9oi&dl=0</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jp4tlisj2j33ldzdt4n99/Photo-19-7-2025-12-56-27.jpg?rlkey=t0ry8hxzg9rj4xhwyi48ua6c2&st=knz9ujuk&dl=0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jp4tlisj2j33ldzdt4n99/Photo-19-7-2025-12-56-27.jpg?rlkey=t0ry8hxzg9rj4xhwyi48ua6c2&st=knz9ujuk&dl=0</a></div><div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">RFC 801 documents the NCP to TCP flag day of Jan 1, 1982. But doesn’t use that term despite latter day documents using that term.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Warner</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"></div></div>