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The term was in use on [[Usenet]] by 1983 for the process of creating a subgroup to move topics of discussion to.<ref>[https://groups.google.com/group/net.misc/browse_thread/thread/b0e9f8531558b7e9/1cc726d9e9e05ebd?q=fork#1cc726d9e9e05ebd Can somebody fork off a "net.philosophy"?] ([[John Gilmore (activist)|John Gilmore]], net.misc, 18 January 1983)</ref>
"Fork" is not known to have been used in the sense of a community [[schism]] during the origins of Lucid Emacs (now [[XEmacs]]) (1991) or the [[Berkeley Software Distribution|BSDs]] (1993–1994); [[Russ Nelson]] used the term "shattering" for this sort of fork in 1993, attributing it to [[John Gilmore (activist)|John Gilmore]].<ref>[https://groups.google.com/group/gnu.misc.discuss/browse_thread/thread/1bba70b8f8676c43/309504a5a51dd0f0 Shattering — good or bad?] (Russell Nelson, gnu.misc.discuss, 1 October 1993)</ref> However, "fork" was in use in the present sense by 1995 to describe the XEmacs split,<ref>[https://groups.google.com/group/cu.cs.macl.info/browse_thread/thread/ed9e5ff9cb21c359/4ce930d2fd1271eb?q=%22fork+of%22+xemacs#4ce930d2fd1271eb Re: Hey Franz: 32K Windows SUCK!!!!!] (Bill Dubuque, cu.cs.macl.info, 21 September 1995)</ref> and was an understood usage in the [[GNU]] Project by 1996.<ref>[https://groups.google.com/group/gnu.misc.discuss/browse_thread/thread/5d7529d865d4d9ca/69ebc4771f32bc45?q=fork+xemacs&utoken=jCqifzMAAABlYGNE0Z8-NzB8d_a6gkmMuNtzuV4zLfLK8bEgnt4z8g27cB9GA0FI9e6hHUM__C_J8dUPGZeQNP0WkVA49NN0 Lignux?] (Marcus G. Daniels, gnu.misc.discuss, 7 June 1996)</ref>
==Forking of free and open-source software==
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