plenty of people on the internet recognised it immediately, so sure, he may have been a rando when he created it, but not so much 15 years later..
Did the one MSFT employee that “reviewed” it know of this image? If not, it doesn’t matter how many people “on the Internet” recognized this image.
I’ll never understand the implied projection.
(I don’t think this was reviewed closely if at all)
Just that tiny image on his blog was enough for me to go "oh yeah, I used his diagram to explain this type of git workflow to colleagues a decade ago". Someone should have spotted that right away.