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Note that this post was written twenty years ago, in 2006 - it just wasn’t published until now.


Thanks! Year added above.


He says it’s a journal entry from around 2006, but adding 2006 to the title feels slightly out of place to me in this case because this tweet in 2026 is publishing a journal entry that was from what I gather not previously published. (Assuming that when he says journal he is referring to hand written journals he has been keeping.)

So it seems to me that authored year is 2006 and publication year is 2026. And usually when you guys or the users put the year in the title, it has to do with year of first publication.

But I am probably overthinking it or I have an incomplete impression of how to interpret what you and others mean when you put the year in the title :p


When the two are different, we prefer the authored year over the published year, since the purpose of putting years in titles is to cue the reader that (1) this is historical material as opposed to current-internet-firehose, and (2) the context it dates from.



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