For an "article" I was writing for my blog today, I decided to look into
my supposed coining of the acronym UPD for the term unplanned
dismount.
What I discovered is that while I did in fact come up with UPD (at
least as we know it -- not some of the earlier, unrelated versions), I
did not invent "unplanned dismount" -- which didn't surprise me, since
that term always seemed fairly self-explanatory anyway.
I did popularize the term, esp'ly when I came up with the acronym.
Klaas Bil once wrote about the anniversary of the term's usage, and he
cited the date of Nov. 7, 2001, when I wrote a post about Cokering.
Actually, I found my own usage of "UPD" from July and August of that
year. Remember that in 2001, there were relatively few forum readers;
it's not a surprise that it took a few months for the acronym to catch
on.
If you give two sh$ts about this and would like to know more (ha!), you
can follow this link to my blog, where the hot UPD issue is the top
post:
http://newyorkunicycle.blogspot.com/
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David_Stone
Dictator for Life,
NYUC
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