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James Reffell

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James Reffell writes Designcult, a personal blog at designcult.org about history, culture and writing. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The origin of “log in” (2011)”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.

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3HN people?
2011–2014first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 1 in 2011

James Reffell writes about things.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The origin of “log in” (2011)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-03

What Hacker News says?

  1. Submitted The origin of “log in” (2011) as a story · 116 points

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  2. Submitted The secret origin of "log in" as a story · 8 points

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  3. Submitted The origin of the term "log in". as a story · 2 points

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