Rob Pike and Dave Presotto arrived at Google well after its founding, and had to choose
login names.
They chose “r” and “p”. The Googlers were concerned about bugs, and r and p said they
would fix any
that were found. Apparently there were about three bugs that needed repair.
On 17Jul 2016, at 8:37 PM, Brantley Coile
<brantleycoile(a)me.com> wrote:
Tom Duff suggested to me that, when I discovered "bwc" was taken at Bell Labs,
I should use "b". I was "brantley" instead. Should have listened to
TD.