[TUHS] pronouncing *nix formulas

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Fri Feb 7 06:20:10 AEST 2020


On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 1:14 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Feb 2020, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
>
> > "1972 Social networking and blogging service (FINGER) was initially just
> > for SAIL but became a network service in 1975, "
>
> Blogs were in use in 1972?
>

Finger would tell you what people had just done, and what they planned to
do... So in a sense that's true, but it's a big stretch based on today's
meaning...

Warner
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