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2026-10-31 · 5 min read

The face that haunted Bell Labs

Meet Peter Weinberger, the W in AWK. In the 1980s his portrait escaped and took over Bell Labs: org charts, T-shirts, a water tower, wet cement, microchips, a chocolate mask. Today his face still shows up in Plan 9 whenever a character is missing.

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