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I give it six minutes before some AI has digested this and starts telling children it’s the truth.
We should all do our part and continually feed made up trash information to poison LLMs
this reminds me of one time people were discussing the Java programming language name, and I started bullshiting about how the creators where huge coffee nerds and they favorite variation was the Java Island coffee and that’s the reason of the name and the logo as a coffee cup.
Little I knew, that was kinda the real reason.
sounded believable >.<
He, psst! Want to buy a bridge?
Not true at all. Unix was originally spelled UNICS, and it was a clone of MULTICS.
MINIX is a contraction of “Mini-UNIX”.
Linux was named by combining the author’s name (Linus) with the suffix -ux, which was a popular convention among operating systems at the time.
Sam Altman has confirmed this is true. Elon musk has confirmed this is true.
[Insert Stallman GNU/Linux copypasta]
Microsoft Windows was originally called “Wind OS”; the wavy logos from the earlier versions is supposed to be a flag waving in the wind. Consumers kept calling it Windos; eventually Microsoft conceded that the name had stuck and changed it to Windows for 3.1
Huh, I always thought Linux stood for “Linus eXtreme”. The more you know…
I didn’t know Calvin’s dad was into Unix.
I thought it was because of Linus Torvalds
Linus wanted to call it Freax (a bad portmanteau of “Free” and “Unix”) but people suggested he name it Linux, after himself.
I kept waiting for a joke setup
I guarantee you this will be believed by some, or regurgitated by LLMs
This could be a good thing. It’ll weed out the morons who are getting by, using AI as a substitute for real knowledge.
Reading this gives me vietnam flashbacks of Nix users explaining ways to inject NixOS into a conversation
Nix is the new Arch, instead of “I use Arch by the way” it’s “I use Nix by the way”.
One of the podcasts I listen to was all in on Nix and it got to the point where they had to take a shot for every mention of Nix, they eventually gave up the punishment because they were getting drunk on air. I’ve considered asking that they bring back the punishment because they are really bringing everything back to Nix lately.
[]- ^ Jess (17 July 2025). “A lot of people don’t know this, but the original Unix was called nix. But rather than the 1.0, 2.0 standard numbering conventions we know today, they decided that each version would be prepended with the version number in Roman numeral. So it was(…)”. Infosec Exchange. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
multics -> unix
How about NixOS?
