Friday, August 13, 2010

Sometime in 1977

Kernighan:

"I know, let's open the book with a program that displays 'hello, world.'"

Ritchie:

"Great idea! I'll start the patent search."

3 comments:

  1. Ha ha, but in 1977 they hadn't invented "search" yet. They would have used gopher.

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  2. Yeah, right, use gophers for search. Ha ha. I'm with you. Also, they used a baby mastodon to wash dishes, and they drove their cars by sticking their feet through the floor and running along the road.

    Gophers. Paulp, you're such a joker.

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  3. Gopher wasn't around till 91. The RFC was published in 93.

    http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1436

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