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i always thought /usr stood for "user". Please tell me I'm not the only one
I think it originally did under old Unix, it was what /home is nowadays; "Unix System Resources" is a backronym.
You are correct and this can be seen in some of the old AT&T demos from the '80s floating around on YouTube. There is even a chart that specifically labels a directory like
/usr/bwkas the user's home.Plan 9 also uses this old convention; users live under
/usrand there is no/home.