I imagine there's relatives like the programmer
beard, but googling "UNIX
beard" returns some examples where it seems to be a thing.
Tyler
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020 at 3:56 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
From:
Tyler Adams
We all know and love the UNIX beard, but I
can't find anything on
how
the beards started other than an old photo of Ken
and Dennis
I'm not sure the term is Unix-specific. At a fairly early stage, people
who
worked on the ARPANET/Internet (when PDP-10's were still the 'usual'
host, and
Unix systems were just starting to beceome common) were jokingly known as
'network grey-beards': the prototypical one being Jon Postel. (Vint
Verf's
beard was too tidy to qualify, IIRC!)
Noel