Yesterday (21 May) was my 33rd birthday. Thanks to Google I learned that Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (of Sherlock Holmes fame) and I almost share a birthday, his is today (22 May). I missed it by one day and 114 years

Ethernet and I are also pretty close, if you include Robert Metcalfe’s ethernet memo as it’s original birth, on 22 May 1973. Based on that I am one day older than ethernet.

1973 was also the year that Unix was being rewritten in C.

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