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Every so often someone tries to make the file live again. No attempt has yet succeeded.
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* [[Astroturf]]: Source of one of the [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/A/astroturfing.html earliest definitions] of the sense in which we present it.
* [[Black Box]]: The File is rife with terms describing programming Black Boxes, most notably [http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/magic-story.html Black Magic].
* [[Blinkenlights]]: Of ''course'' the file has [http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/blinkenlights.html an entry], tracing the trope farther back than we do, to a WWII-vintage machine shop notice (of which they have a photo).
* [[CamelCase]]: The Jargon File definition varies from modern usage -- what ATT and many others recognize as "CamelCase", the File calls [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/BiCapitalization.html BiCapitalization]. According to the File, "true" [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/camelCase.html camelCase] requires the first letter be lowercase, so as to provide a "hump" in the middle of the word.
* [[Canon]]: Source of the [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/canonical.html canonical definition] of "canonical", as used in most non-religious contexts today.
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:{{spoiler|It helps if you wait five or more seconds.}} (It also plays on the absurdity that understanding alone is enough to make the exact same behavior work.)
* [[If I Wanted X, I Would Y]]: A slight [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/I/If-you-want-X--you-know-where-to-find-it-.html variation]: "If you want PL/I, you know where to find it."
* [[The Internet Oracle]]: Has a [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/O/Oracle--the.html brief entry].
* [[Layman's Terms]]: Despite being written by hackers for hackers, its definitions very often present abstruse or obscure tech concepts in plan, simple-to-understand terms.
* [[Logic Bomb]]: Provides the [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/L/logic-bomb.html correct definition] of the concept, unlike us.
* [[Metasyntactic Variable]]: There is an [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/M/metasyntactic-variable.html extensive entry] on the subject that documents not just terms used by American and British programmers but those used by programmers from continental Europe and New Zealand.
* [[Muggles]]: Provides a [http://catb.org/jargon/html/M/muggle.html definition] for the hackish use, which was inspired by the [[Harry Potter|Trope Namer]] -- someone who doesn't know about or how to use the magic of computers.
* [[Names Given to Computers]]: The real-life [[Cthulhu Mythos|Shub-Internet]] was named after a joke in the Jargon File and operated as a server in the Pentagon for a number of years. Obviously a very silly type-6, relating to the Internet's origins as a US Defense Department project.
* [[Neologism]]: The source or earliest documentation of many terms that later entered widespread use.
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