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[–] 3 points 2 years ago

It exists because, long ago in a galaxy far far away, a sysadmin ran out of space on a drive. The system was split between two 10MB(?) drives, one was / and one was mounted at /usr, for User data. They moved some of the programs to a folder for a dummy user, /usr/bin, and put that in everybody's PATH.

Everybody kept on doing things that way ever since. Social momentum is funny that way.

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