Jargon File

n. vocabulary of computing terms used by hackers

The Jargon File is a glossary of hacker slang. The original Jargon File was a collection of hacker slang from technical cultures including the MIT AI Lab, the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), and others of the old ARPANET AI/LISP/PDP-10 communities including Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), Carnegie Mellon University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
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<jargon, publication, humour> The on-line hacker Jargon File maintained by Eric S. Raymond. A large collection of definitions of computing terms, including much wit, wisdom, and history.
Many definitions in this dictionary are from v3.0.0 of 1993-07-27.
Current version: 4.4.2 (2003-05-22), as of 2003-06-09.
Jargon File Home.
See also Yellow Book, Jargon.
(2003-06-09)