Happy Fake Birthday To Me
by Dave Tufts - January 2, 2008 / 9:41am View more articles
As a former developer, I'm familiar with Unix time and the Unix Epoch.
Unix time is the number of seconds that have passed since the Unix Epoch. The Unix Epoch is midnight, January 1st, 1970.
I almost always use the Unix Epoch as my birthday when signing up for throw away accounts – web forums, social networking sites, and anything else that requires a birthday to register for.
Yesterday, Jan 1, I received about 20 Happy Birthday emails like this:
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Happy Birthday from The Official San Diego Chargers Forum
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 00:01:20 -0800
From: The Official San Diego Chargers Forum <chargersforums@xxx.xxx>
Hello PatsFan,
We at The Official San Diego Chargers Forum would like to wish you a happy birthday today!
Happy real birthday to Unix time and happy fake birthday to me.
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And I look pretty damn good for 125+, if I do say so myself.
Best of Luck to iMarc in 2008. I'll be looking forward to a year of great sites.