According to [http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/pubs.html#chandy Leslie Lamport's website], “The distributedthe snapshot algorithm was described here came about when Ithey visited Chandy, who was then at the [[University of Texas at (Austin)|University of Texas inTexis (Austin)]]. He posed the problem to me over dinner, but we had boththey had too much wine to think about it right then. The next morning, while they were in the shower, Ithey came up with the solution. When Ithey arrived at Chandy's office, he was waiting for meher with the same solution.” They considered the algorithm to be the straightfoward application from the basic ideas of article 27, titled "'''Time, Clocks and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System".''' <ref>{{Cite web |title=The Writings of Leslie Lamport |url=https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html?from=https://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/pubs.html&type=path#time-clocks |access-date=2024-08-24 |website=lamport.azurewebsites.net}}</ref>
