Oh no! I totally screwed up the coding on that one! Thanks for catching that, I'll go and fix it.
And it looks like I made a mistake in digging through those citations; on this search through, the last time I can see it outright REPOSTED is in December 2006; it was still getting RECOMMENDED with a "look around and see if you can find it" in 2017, but not full-on copy-pasted. (Maybe because with the switch over to Google Groups, people assumed you could just search for it?)
EDIT: oh lord, it looks like since I made the original post, Google Groups has changed its search stuff to make it harder to find things, so while I vaguely remember the 2013 source, I'm having a hard time finding it again. Sorry! I hope the citations I could give you help.
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And it looks like I made a mistake in digging through those citations; on this search through, the last time I can see it outright REPOSTED is in December 2006; it was still getting RECOMMENDED with a "look around and see if you can find it" in 2017, but not full-on copy-pasted. (Maybe because with the switch over to Google Groups, people assumed you could just search for it?)
EDIT: oh lord, it looks like since I made the original post, Google Groups has changed its search stuff to make it harder to find things, so while I vaguely remember the 2013 source, I'm having a hard time finding it again. Sorry! I hope the citations I could give you help.
I have also, in the intervening years since making this post, done another write-up of the use of "system" as a stand-alone noun, going back to the 1980s. So that might also have some of the information you're seeking?