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This may be a setup but I gotta ask…why the preceding 0 in 01979 and 02000?





Avoiding the y10k bug, obviously.

Just delaying the y100k bug, I’d say

Without knowing your parent: it’s a cultural signifier of the Long Now Foundation.



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