{"id":29024,"date":"2018-11-24T22:53:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T20:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=29024"},"modified":"2018-11-24T22:53:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T20:53:26","slug":"the-history-of-unix-rob-pike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/11\/24\/the-history-of-unix-rob-pike\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Unix, Rob Pike"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_2NI6t2r_Hs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs\">Rob Pike talks<\/a> about the history of Unix and his quite remarkable career.\u00a0 And here&#8217;s my favorite quote from the video, referring to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Unix_Programming_Environment\">The Unix Programming Environment<\/a>&#8221; book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is amazing to me that the book that came out in the late 1983 is still technically relevant today.\u00a0 It&#8217;s insane!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Rob Pike talks about the history of Unix and his quite remarkable career.\u00a0 And here&#8217;s my favorite quote from the video, referring to &#8220;The Unix Programming Environment&#8221; book: It is amazing to me that the book that came out in the late 1983 is still technically relevant today.\u00a0 It&#8217;s insane!<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The History of Unix, Rob Pike #ComputerScience #history #RobPike #UNIX #Linux","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,18,62],"tags":[286,3610,253,1908],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-29024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-programming","category-technology","tag-history","tag-rob-pike","tag-unix","tag-youtube-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs Rob Pike talks about the history of Unix and his quite remarkable career. 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