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I suppose these articles aren't timestamped on purpose, but that is really annoying.

From the bottom of the page:

Updated: $Date: 2018/12/15 14:02:39 $

the article was published March 18th 2010 in the Boston Review. I don't think the omission is deliberate, I think it is a mistake.

Interesting... one does not expect the timestamp to be there!

I think that's an old CVS/SVN trick that didn't come forward into git.

There's a token pattern you can put into files that gets updated at commit time.

That was the traditional place to put it in the 90’s IIRC. Although I seem to remember seeing Updated snips under the title as well sometimes.

Did the mention of "Windows Media Player" gave it up? :-)

I think they're written in a neutral tone which is supposed to withstand the test of time, plus edited for corrections, but I do agree that it'd be nice to dates for some context.

(It would appear that the original article was published in 2010.)

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