What did people do for entertainment before they had logfiles to tail?
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@evan cat /dev/random and look for secret messages.
…Just me?
@evan They manually wrote log files of what was happening around them.
@evan I spent a lot of time trying to invent concrete from first principles and mud/rocks I found outside.
Caused the entries in the log files
@evan it's super high time to use html emojis for decorate logs 🚫 ⛔
@evan Manpages 😁 hahah
@evan you didn't tag this rhetorical so, it looks like 'Less' was around before tail!
"Mark Nudelman initially wrote less during 1983–85, in the need of a version of more able to do backward scrolling of the displayed text. The name came from the joke of doing "backwards more." "
