Trivia on KDE History

Thursday, 14 July 2005 | thiago

On Jan 4th, 1999, the kde-common/accounts file was created by Stephan Kulow, but the idea is attributed to David Faure (no blog).

After threatening removal of accounts for people who didn't report in, the kde-common/accounts file was created with 180 names.

If you look at that file's history, you can find this gem:

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r14836 | coolo | 1999-01-04 20:41:46 -0200 (Seg, 04 Jan 1999) | 4 lines

more people - Did you know that one guy in America called his daughter
"EinenUniversalschluesselindieComputerderBuerokratiewerfen"? (Had
to think about it while adding mhk ;-)

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(http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-commits&m=91548995328032&w=2)

Today there are 1138 accounts in KDE.