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  "createdAt": "2025-08-13T19:06:41.283Z",
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  "text": "They're called strings because in the 1950s/1960s a bunch of math nerds thought \"well it's a series of symbols next to each other, as if they're connected by a piece of string\".\n\nThen those math nerds became computer nerds and then those computer nerds used the word in their programming languages"
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