mesrik 2 days ago

It was the "Great to see _some_ 3letter guy into this" underlined some that.

It felt bit like s/some/random/g perhaps would apply when reading it. Intentional or not by writer. It made me long and write my comment. There are many 3letter user accounts, which some are more famous than others. To my generation not because they were early users, but great things what they have done. I'm early user too and done things then still quite widely being used with many distributions, but wouldn't compare my achievements to those who became famous and known widely by their account, short or long.

Anyhow I thought that "djb" ring bell anyone having been around for while. Not just those who have been around early 90 or so when he was held renegade opinions he expressed programming style (qmail, dj dns, etc.), dragged to court of ITAR issues etc.

But because of his latter work with cryptography and running cr.yp.to site for quite long time.

https://cr.yp.to/

I was just wondering, did not intend to start argument fight.

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debugnik 2 days ago

Is this because they're that famous though or simply because there weren't as many people in the scene back then? We just don't do the initials thing anymore.

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  • overfeed 2 days ago

    Yes: the fame is the subtext. It's akin to mononyms; they'd be referring to famous people like Shakira, Madonna, or Beyoncé. A lot of us have first names, but the point isn't that one's family calls them "Dave" without ambiguity.

    There were many unix instances, and likely multiple djb logins around the world, but there's only one considered to be the djb, and it's dur to fame.

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