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Randomness and the Netscape Browser January 1996 Dr. Dobb's Journal
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~daw/papers/ddj-netscape.ht...
This was written in 1996. The language used feels already much different from today's publications. God I feel old.
> This was written in 1996. The language used feels already much different from today's publications. God I feel old.
That depends on which publications you're looking at, just as it did in 1996. An article from LWN [1] today, for example, reads in a fairly similar style. Maybe slightly less stuffy, because it's targeted at a slightly more general audience.
[1] https://lwn.net/
The authors of that article got pictured on the cover of the New York Times for finding that security issue: https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/technology/researchers-fi...