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		chris_wot on May 14, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Passwords for JetBlue accounts cannot contain a Q ... Given that the web is only really 35 years old, that's a truism.

mikeash on May 15, 2014 [–]

Nothing says that legacy systems which are on the internet today can't have started out well before the internet. The legacy system that JetBlue is dealing with in this case has, in fact, been in continuous operation for over five decades.

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