User blog comment:TimmyQuivy/On the Importance of Upgrading MediaWiki/@comment-3403151-20200507171414/@comment-1998339-20200507203456

The joke's a reference to the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the story, the nations of the world are in a constant state of war, & whenever one nation betrays another, world history is revised & amended to reflect the present state of affairs & obfuscate the actual truth from the general public.