Dick Haight, was present the day that pipes were introduced into Unix: “I happened to have been visiting the research crew theday they implemented pipes. It was clear to everyone practically minutes after the system came up with pipes working that it was a wonderful thing. Nobody would ever go back and give that up if they could help it.” (Jay and Ronda Hauben, Netizens: An Anthology, Chapter 9 - On the Early History and Impact of UNIX: Tools to Build the Tools for a New Millennium)