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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mas.to/users/DanielMReck/statuses/116983945765613481">Daniel M. Reck (danielmreck@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 21:14:20 JST</a><a href="https://mas.to/@DanielMReck" title="danielmreck@mas.to"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/229550-48-20240916065715.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Daniel M. Reck" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Daniel M. Reck</a><div><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ecadre/116982286102265331" rel="in-reply-to">in reply to</a><ul><li><li><a href="https://gnusocial.jp/user/92403" title="ecadre@mastodon.social">Andrew Wigglesworth</a></li></ul></div></section><article><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ecadre">@ecadre</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@glyph">@glyph</a> Well, the citations at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs</a> suggest a 1976 date as the first development of Emacs.</p><p>The citations at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux</a> suggest Linus Torvalds enrolled in a Unix course in 1990 and during that course began to conceptualize the Linux kernel, which he released in 1991.</p><p>If those dates are incorrect or I'm missing something about 1991 being "at least" 10 years after 1976, please let me know. Please also update the articles above with more citations as well as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics</a> if appropriate to helping me understand those concepts better when writing absurdist replies to someone's facepalm post.</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/6578350#notice-12951670">In conversation</a><time datetime="2026-07-26T21:14:20+09:00" title="Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 21:14:20 JST">about a day ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mas.to/@DanielMReck/116983945765613481" rel="external" title="Sent from mas.to via ActivityPub">mas.to</a></span></span><a href="https://mas.to/@DanielMReck/116983945765613481">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux">Linux</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Linux (, LIN-uuks) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution (distro), which includes the kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project.
Popular Linux distributions include Debian, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, and Ubuntu. Commercial distributions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise. Desktop Linux distributions include a windowing system such as X11 or Wayland and a desktop environment such as GNOME, KDE Plasma or Xfce. Distributions intended for servers may not have a graphical user interface at all or include a solution stack such as LAMP. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses and recommends the name "GNU/Linux" to emphasize the use and importance of GNU software in many distributions, causing some controversy. Because Linux is freely redistributable...</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs">Emacs</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Emacs ( ), originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor Macros"), is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor". Development of the first Emacs began in the mid-1970s, and work on GNU Emacs, directly descended from the original, is ongoing; its latest version is 29.4 , released June 2024.
Emacs has over 10,000 built-in commands and its user interface allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work. Implementations of Emacs typically feature a dialect of the Lisp programming language, allowing users and developers to write new commands and applications for the editor. Extensions have been written to, among other things, manage files, remote access, e-mail, outlines, multimedia, Git integration, RSS feeds, and collaborative editing, as well as implementations of ELIZA, Pong, Conway's Life, Snake, Dunnet, and Tetris.
The original EMACS was written in 1976...</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time">Time</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. Time dictates all forms of action, age, and causality, being a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events (or the intervals between them), and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in conscious experience. Time is often referred to as the fourth dimension and the temporal dimension, in addition to the three spatial dimensions.
Time is primarily measured in linear spans or periods, ordered from shortest to longest. Practical, human-scale measurements of time are performed using clocks and calendars, reflecting a 24-hour day collected into a 365-day year linked to the astronomical motion of the Earth. Scientific measurements of time instead vary from Planck time at the shortest to billions of years at the longest. Measurable time is believed to have effectively begun with the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, encompassed by the chronology of the universe. Modern physics understands time to be inextricable...</div><footer></footer></article></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org</div><h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics">Mathematics</a></h5><div></div></header><div>Mathematics is a field of knowledge concerned with abstract concepts such as numbers, geometric shapes, sets, functions, and probabilities. It uses logical reasoning and proof to study and establish their properties, often expressed as theorems, formulas, and equations. Mathematics is used to model and solve problems in science, engineering, technology, economics, and everyday life.
There are many areas of mathematics, including number theory (the study of integers and their properties), algebra (the study of operations and the structures they form), geometry (the study of shapes and spaces that contain them), analysis (the quantitative study of approximation and convergence), and set theory (presently used as a foundation for all mathematics).
Mathematics involves the description and manipulation of abstract objects that are either abstractions from nature or purely abstract entities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. Mathematics uses pure reason to prove the properties of objects through proofs, which consist of a succession of applications of deductive rules to already established...</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Daniel M. Reck (danielmreck@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 21:14:20 JSTDaniel M. Reck
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@ecadre @glyph Well, the citations at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs suggest a 1976 date as the first development of Emacs.
The citations at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux suggest Linus Torvalds enrolled in a Unix course in 1990 and during that course began to conceptualize the Linux kernel, which he released in 1991.
If those dates are incorrect or I'm missing something about 1991 being "at least" 10 years after 1976, please let me know. Please also update the articles above with more citations as well as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics if appropriate to helping me understand those concepts better when writing absurdist replies to someone's facepalm post.
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  Linux (, LIN-uuks) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution (distro), which includes the kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Popular Linux distributions include Debian, Fedora Linux, Arch Linux, and Ubuntu. Commercial distributions include Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise. Desktop Linux distributions include a windowing system such as X11 or Wayland and a desktop environment such as GNOME, KDE Plasma or Xfce. Distributions intended for servers may not have a graphical user interface at all or include a solution stack such as LAMP. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses and recommends the name "GNU/Linux" to emphasize the use and importance of GNU software in many distributions, causing some controversy. Because Linux is freely redistributable...
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  Emacs
  Emacs ( ), originally named EMACS (an acronym for "Editor Macros"), is a family of text editors that are characterized by their extensibility. The manual for the most widely used variant, GNU Emacs, describes it as "the extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor". Development of the first Emacs began in the mid-1970s, and work on GNU Emacs, directly descended from the original, is ongoing; its latest version is 29.4 , released June 2024. Emacs has over 10,000 built-in commands and its user interface allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work. Implementations of Emacs typically feature a dialect of the Lisp programming language, allowing users and developers to write new commands and applications for the editor. Extensions have been written to, among other things, manage files, remote access, e-mail, outlines, multimedia, Git integration, RSS feeds, and collaborative editing, as well as implementations of ELIZA, Pong, Conway's Life, Snake, Dunnet, and Tetris. The original EMACS was written in 1976...
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  Time
  Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. Time dictates all forms of action, age, and causality, being a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events (or the intervals between them), and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in conscious experience. Time is often referred to as the fourth dimension and the temporal dimension, in addition to the three spatial dimensions. Time is primarily measured in linear spans or periods, ordered from shortest to longest. Practical, human-scale measurements of time are performed using clocks and calendars, reflecting a 24-hour day collected into a 365-day year linked to the astronomical motion of the Earth. Scientific measurements of time instead vary from Planck time at the shortest to billions of years at the longest. Measurable time is believed to have effectively begun with the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago, encompassed by the chronology of the universe. Modern physics understands time to be inextricable...
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  Mathematics
  Mathematics is a field of knowledge concerned with abstract concepts such as numbers, geometric shapes, sets, functions, and probabilities. It uses logical reasoning and proof to study and establish their properties, often expressed as theorems, formulas, and equations. Mathematics is used to model and solve problems in science, engineering, technology, economics, and everyday life. There are many areas of mathematics, including number theory (the study of integers and their properties), algebra (the study of operations and the structures they form), geometry (the study of shapes and spaces that contain them), analysis (the quantitative study of approximation and convergence), and set theory (presently used as a foundation for all mathematics). Mathematics involves the description and manipulation of abstract objects that are either abstractions from nature or purely abstract entities that are stipulated to have certain properties, called axioms. Mathematics uses pure reason to prove the properties of objects through proofs, which consist of a succession of applications of deductive rules to already established...

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