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Comment by 0942v8653 | Hacker News Reader

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.