section_path: In popular culture
section_name: In popular culture
paragraph_text: In popular culture
  
  Vernor Vinge 's novel A Deepness in the Sky describes a spacefaring trading civilization thousands of years in the future that still uses the Unix epoch. The " programmer-archaeologist " responsible for finding and maintaining usable code in mature computer systems first believes that the epoch refers to the time when man first walked on the Moon, but then realizes that it is "the 0-second of one of humankind's first computer operating systems".