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On 25/05/2026 18:14, HenHanna@NewsGrouper wrote:

* 1960s (The MIT Hacker Era): The term officially entered computer culture

There's an office for clique slang?

Is that a part of the ministry of fun?
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On Mon, 25 May 2026 17:14:29 GMT, HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

iirc, Some Programmers in Japan have a hard time thinking of
function names and end up naming their functions
function1, function2, function3, function4,.... (very unhelpful naming)

Sinclair: Ready?

Delenn : Why do your people always ask if someone is "ready"
right before you're going to do something massively
unwise?

Sinclair: Tradition.

-- Babylon 5 s3e16 "War Without End"
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Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk> posted:

On 25/05/2026 18:14, HenHanna@NewsGrouper wrote:

* 1960s (The MIT Hacker Era): The term officially entered computer culture

There's an office for clique slang?

Is that a part of the ministry of fun?

1960s (The MIT Hacker Era): The term officially entered computer culture

This makes sense because the Hackers of both coasts (and in between) maintained an official Jargon file.


This is good quiz question: -- which is earlier? The Jargon file, or Usenet?



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---------- nice bit about 2 kinds of AI's --- Good luck with that !!!
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HenHanna@NewsGrouper <user4055@newsgrouper.org.invalid> wrote:

This is good quiz question: -- which is earlier? The Jargon file, or Usenet?

Jargon file.
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tfeb.org/computer/
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Tristan Wibberley <tristan.wibberley+netnews2@alumni.manchester.ac.uk>
writes:

On 25/05/2026 18:14, HenHanna@NewsGrouper wrote:

* 1960s (The MIT Hacker Era): The term officially entered computer culture

There's an office for clique slang?

Is that a part of the ministry of fun?

I think this is an acronym of life. SNAF: Situation Normal All Fucked
Up; FUBAR: Fucked up Beyond Recognition.


Roger Wilco my friend!
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