According to [http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/pubs.html#chandy Leslie Lamport's website], the snapshot algorithm was described when they visited Chandy, who was at the [[University of Texas (Austin)|University of Texas (Austin)]]. He posed the problem over dinner, but they had too much wine to think about it. The next morning, while Lamport was in the shower, shehe came up with the solution. When shehe arrived at Chandy's office, he was waiting for herhim 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>
