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Anybody know the year of this? It was posted in 2007 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=81289) and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9997073 has 2003 in the title, but it's likely even older. The delightful Eco quote was from 1995.

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When I was around Stanford in the early 80's (second employee at Imagen, a laser printer spin-off from the TeX project), I'm pretty sure Knuth already handled his email via his secretary.

Edit: Oh, right, see the summary elsewhere about his secretary Phyllis Winkler at her retirement.

Another date for you: there's an HTML comment in the <head>

    <!-- Changed by: Ursula N. Owen,  8-Mar-1999 -->

It's possible that it's referring to the HTML skeleton, not the article itself.

Bravo for finding a bit of actual textual evidence. Let's use 1999; it's at least an upper bound.

Actually I heard of him stopping to use email during the late 80's and such

That's consistent with cpr's post. But the article was clearly written later.

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