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== In popular culture == [[Vernor Vinge]]'s novel ''[[A Deepness in the Sky]]'' describes a spacefaring trading civilization thousands of years in the future that still uses the Unix epoch. The "[[software archaeology|programmer-archaeologist]]" responsible for finding and maintaining usable code in mature computer systems first believes that the epoch refers to the time when [[Apollo 11|man first walked on the Moon]], but then realizes that it is "the 0-second of one of humankind's first computer operating systems".<ref name="mashey20041227">{{cite journal | title=Languages, Levels, Libraries, and Longevity | author=Mashey, John R. | author-link=John R. Mashey | journal=Queue | date=27 December 2004 | volume=2 | issue=9 | pages=32β38 | doi=10.1145/1039511.1039532 | s2cid=28911378 | doi-access=free }}</ref>
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