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by danso 4093 days ago
The annotations are also a great reminder of how programming used to be not so long ago. It's hard to imagine having to search Internet Archive for your own source code in this age of Github:

http://genius.com/5088475

> Note: This may not be the first first code released, but it appears to be the earliest copy that we’ve found, so far. This is a copy that was indexed by the Internet Archive on Feb 3rd 2006, so about 2.5 weeks after the initial release. It’s very likely that a few things changed in that time period and I’ll try to make a note of some of those, that I can remember, inline.