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2 unusual facts about Les Earnest


Finger protocol

The finger program was written in 1971 by Les Earnest who created the program to solve the need of users who wanted information on other users of the network.

Intelligent code completion

In 1961, Les Earnest, who headed the research on this budding technology, saw it necessary to include the first spell checker that accessed a list of 10,000 acceptable words.



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