[ Thanks to Amy
Kucharik for this link. ]
“Unix is 35. Some people consider that the official start of
middle age, although for a computer technology it’s more like
existing since the Middle Ages. Over that time, Unix and its child
Linux have collected a lot of history and some quite archaic
language. In this tip, we’ll have a look at a few of the more
ancient bits of crusty stuff and identify their purposes, if not
their actual origins…”