“An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.”
The Humane Interface (2001)
“And we can always supply them with a program that makes identical files into links to a single file.”
[199709292012.NAA09616@wall.org, 1997]
Usenet postings, 1997
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