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* [[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. |
* [[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. |
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* [[Neologism]]: The source or earliest documentation of many terms that later entered widespread use. |
* [[Neologism]]: The source or earliest documentation of many terms that later entered widespread use. |
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* [[Recursive Acronym]]: Contains possibly the earliest definition of the concept, along with examples. |
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* [[Sock Puppet]]: As with ''Astroturf'' above, the File is one of the first, if not the first, formal definition of the usage as we document it. |
* [[Sock Puppet]]: As with ''Astroturf'' above, the File is one of the first, if not the first, formal definition of the usage as we document it. |
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* [[Technology Marches On]]: Even as of the late 1990s updates it was already more of a historical document than a living one. |
* [[Technology Marches On]]: Even as of the late 1990s updates it was already more of a historical document than a living one. |
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