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Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2017 10:31:30 UTC Hallå Kitteh > Why Does ~ Represent the Home Folder on macOS and Linux?
https://www.howtogeek.com/329573/why-does-represent-the-home-folder-on-macos-and-linux/
I guessed "it happened to not be in use for anything else at the time", but it's more specific than that! Let's go back to 1975 and the Lear Siegler ADM-3A terminal.
/via https://identi.ca/shakthimaan/note/plWN4CuDRsyEjs9sG14STA-
Hallå Kitteh (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 20-Oct-2017 10:36:32 UTC Hallå Kitteh @bortzmeyer Yes, of course. And probably a few obscure OS:es inspired by it too.
BeOS apparently used it:
https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/userguide/en/filesystem-layout.html
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