Jun 4, 2026, 8:42 PM

1991: With the release of Net/2, #BSD changes the old /usr/dict to /usr/share/dict .

1997: FHS 2.0 is released, changing the /usr/dict from FSSTND 1.x to /usr/share/dict .

1998: #Debian changes /usr/dict to /usr/share/dict in its spelling packages, the change taking about a year to propagate to all packages.

2001: #Wikipedia is invented.

2009: A 2-edit account puts the old /usr/dict name into Wikipedia. where it has stood ever since.

Remember: Sometimes Wikipedia is so out of date that what it says stopped being true before Wikipedia even existed.