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RIP Dennis.

So these are actually commits from the C language? Or are they spoofed?

Obviously there wasn't Git back then, but did they use some sort of version control when developing C?

> Obviously there wasn't Git back then, but did they use some sort of version control when developing C?

I'm gonna guess printouts.

Unfortunately, this joke makes GitHub Graphs page much less useful, because graphs start from 1972.

Is there a way to get this fixed?

It's not that big a deal, is it? You can just narrow the span down like this: http://cl.ly/image/3A12032B3Q2O

You could file a bug against GitHub.

Maybe they could also fix their recognition of email addresses to permit `<research!bwk>` too.

Hah, that's funny. Give credit where credit is due.