June 12, 2025
Someone actually wrote a paper trying to understand how Dennis Ritchie was able to typeset his PhD thesis because the tech to write it didn't exist back then!
Reference: Brailsford, D.F., Kernighan, B.W. and Ritchie, W.A., 2022, September. How did dennis ritchie produce his PhD thesis? a typographical mystery. In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (pp. 1-10).