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>(1969)

This seems to be a bug:

>Last Modified: December 31, 1969 Open of lock file "/HITS/.lck" failed.

It states clearly at the top that it was written in 2003.

Perhaps the footer is a joke, as if the true timestamp failed to load but was interpreted as Unix timestamp zero in a different time zone?

Apple did not exist in 1969. The Mac did not exist until 1984.