https://tube.ekaii.fr/videos/watch/4e7c1a4a-48ba-455c-9e63-47ccf3ceca3d Ever wonder why your favorite UNIX command is called "grep"? And what the heck does it have to do with the Founding Fathers? Join me as we discuss linguistics research, Bell Labs, the American Revolution, and how it all resulted in the linux tool we all depend upon! Timestamps 00:00 The Phone Call that Created grep 01:05 Linguistic fingerprinting 02:55 A Historical Mystery... 05:00 PDP-7 Limitations 07:40 Ken Thompson's Overnight Hack 10:27 Essential Tool or Unix Junk? Follow LaurieWired on Social Media: ►https://linktr.ee/lauriewired Works Cited: Unix: An Oral History (Princeton): https://web.archive.org/web/20200803035038/https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/frs122/unixhist/finalhis.htm The Federalist Papers (Library of Congress): https://guides.loc.gov/federalist-papers/full-text The History of grep (Rualthanzauva): https://medium.com/@rualthanzauva/grep-was-a-private-command-of-mine-for-quite-a-while-before-i-made-it-public-ken-thompson-a40e24a5ef48 — mirrored from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQZ81MbjKpU Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:47:06 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tube.ekaii.fr https://tube.ekaii.fr/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://tube.ekaii.fr/videos/watch/4e7c1a4a-48ba-455c-9e63-47ccf3ceca3d All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tube.ekaii.fr/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.