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* [[Older Than They Think]]: Some of the terms in the File which have become pretty much standard usage in computing (both professional and hobby), like such as ''frob'', ''foo'' and ''mung'', are believed to date back to the early 1950s and the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT. |
* [[Older Than They Think]]: Some of the terms in the File which have become pretty much standard usage in computing (both professional and hobby), like such as ''frob'', ''foo'' and ''mung'', are believed to date back to the early 1950s and the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT. |
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* [[Perplexing Plurals]]: Documents the classic hacker usages of Vax/Vaxen and box/boxen (both by analogy to ox/oxen), among others. |
* [[Perplexing Plurals]]: Documents the classic hacker usages of Vax/Vaxen and box/boxen (both by analogy to ox/oxen), among others. |
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* [[Puff of Logic]]: [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/schroedinbug.html Schroedinbugs], in which a program works fine until someone looking at the source code realizes it shouldn't work, at which point it stops working. |
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* [[Read the Freaking Manual]]: The File has a surprisingly detailed [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/RTFM.html entry] for the acronym RTFM, although it is by no means the origination of the term. |
* [[Read the Freaking Manual]]: The File has a surprisingly detailed [http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/RTFM.html entry] for the acronym RTFM, although it is by no means the origination of the term. |
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* [[Recursive Acronym]]: Contains possibly the earliest definition of the concept, along with examples. |
* [[Recursive Acronym]]: Contains possibly the earliest definition of the concept, along with examples. |
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