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-<p>One day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel and I (Landon Curt
-Noll) were working for National Semiconductor’s Genix porting group, and we
-were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.</p>
+<p><strong>It was a dark and stormy night…</strong></p>
+<p>OK, let’s go back to 1984, not 1830: one day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel
+and I (Landon Curt Noll) were working for National Semiconductor’s Genix porting
+group, and we were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.</p>
 <p>Larry had been trying to fix a bug in the classic Bourne shell (C code <code>#define</code>d
 to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the <code>finger(1)</code>
 program from early BSD (a bug ridden <code>finger</code> implementation to be sure).</p>
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-One day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel and I (Landon Curt
-Noll) were working for National Semiconductor's Genix porting group, and we
-were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.
+**It was a dark and stormy night...**
+
+OK, let's go back to 1984, not 1830: one day (1984 March 23 to be exact), Larry Bassel
+and I (Landon Curt Noll) were working for National Semiconductor's Genix porting
+group, and we were both in our offices trying to fix some very broken code.
 
 Larry had been trying to fix a bug in the classic Bourne shell (C code `#define`d
 to death to sort of look like Algol) and I had been working on the `finger(1)`