Every once in a while someone notices the first commit in the Go repo is dated 1972: % git log --reverse --stat commit 7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfaea7d5efb5e90695a8 Author: Brian Kernighan <bwk> AuthorDate: Tue Jul 18 19:05:45 1972 -0500 Commit: Brian Kernighan <bwk> CommitDate: Tue Jul 18 19:05:45 1972 -0500 hello, world R=ken DELTA=7 (7 added, 0 deleted, 0 changed) src/pkg/debug/macho/testdata/hello.