Unix-based mallet

BSD and various other *nixes have included a group of text files in /usr/share/calendar with various important, notable, or just interesting-to-the-authors dates in history. One of the files is US holidays, one is US History, one has famous people's birthdays, and one, calendar.computer, has trivia AbOUT the timeline of computer development. It often also has the birthdays of the of the folks who wrote much of the code for FreeBSD, although usually in the form of "name year email address@freebsd.org."

The freeBSD calendar trivia for August 14 includes this cryptic entry: "First Unix-based mallet created, 1954."

The page http://www.mv.com/users/mem/gb/guests.html has links to a page "about mem," wherein the author of the page, Mark E. Mallet, says "I am tickled by the fact that my birthday is noted in the calendar file distributed with many versions of UNIX these days."

Mark E. Mallet, who was born August 14, 1954, is the "First Unix-based mallet," due to his early work on ISPs and connections to (probably) someone at Harvard who was adding data to Calendar pages.