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Published: 2011-03-11 22:20:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 141; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 3
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Almost 10 years ago, I realized that the UNIX operating system (which counts the time in seconds since Jan.1st 1970) would become 1 billion seconds old (roughly 30 years).By coincidence, the billionth second would be on a sunday morning, 4 am.
I decided to ask my friend megaalf to celebrate. We took this screenshot of the very moment of 1.000.000.000 seconds UNIX time.
We had a great time, celebrating a saturday night until sunday morning.
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The idea, the story, the screenshot. They're AWESOME!
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Hehe, yea. Notice the glitch in the countdown. We were drunk and wrote a perl script to count the seconds, not taking into account that the program needs time to execute. Right after "touchdown" our second-counting script skips second "9".
Don't write code, when you're drunk
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And where does that come from?
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Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay. I wouldn't want to raise that discussion again. I believe we're way beyond that. But the core idea that I'm talking about is that there were very impressive systems, and some very impressive ideas, considering the time of creation. Can we agree on that?
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This was the very moment of 1 billion seconds of the best operating system that ever was (and a document of our bad programming skills at the time, if you look closely).
By the way, if you are using an apple computer, your operating system is still based on UNIX.
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