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Jordan<p>I'll just leave this here 😎</p><p><a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/inde</span><span class="invisible">x.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/jargonfile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jargonfile</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/jargon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jargon</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/file" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>file</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/hacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hacker</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a></p>
Greg Pfeil<p>I seem to have lost track of the relatively recent “non-toxic” (i.e., LGTBQ+ friendly, ESR-averse) version of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JargonFile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JargonFile</span></a>. Can someone point me to it?</p><p>I would say <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LazyWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LazyWeb</span></a>, but I’ve already spent too long trying to track this down again.</p>
Jamie<p>If you're a fan of The Story of Mel in the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/JargonFile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JargonFile</span></a> check out this new website about his life and story: <a href="https://melsloop.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">melsloop.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Hacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hacker</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Hackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hackers</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/The" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>The</span></a> StoryOfMel <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/UNIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNIX</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.platypush.tech/@blacklight" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>blacklight</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@DrHyde" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>DrHyde</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fedi.tyil.nl/@tyil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tyil</span></a></span> The <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/JargonFile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JargonFile</span></a> started being passed around and accumulating entries through the 1970s at <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Stanford" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stanford</span></a>, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/MIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MIT</span></a>, <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/CarnegieMellon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CarnegieMellon</span></a>, Bolt Beranek and Newman, and other pre-Internet computing centers. Some terms date back to the late 1950s MIT Tech Model Railroad Club, a very early progenitor of <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/hacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hacker</span></a> culture.</p><p>Far more than you ever wanted to know here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_F</span><span class="invisible">ile</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/SAIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SAIL</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/CSAIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSAIL</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/CMU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CMU</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/BBN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BBN</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/ARPANET" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ARPANET</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lisp</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/TMRC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TMRC</span></a></p>
Mark Gardner<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>lcamtuf</span></a></span> We used to call this the wheel of reincarnation, the Wheel of Life, or the Wheel of <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/Sa%E1%B9%83s%C4%81ra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Saṃsāra</span></a><br><a href="http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-o</span><span class="invisible">f-reincarnation.html</span></a><br><a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/JargonFile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JargonFile</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/HackerSlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerSlang</span></a> <a href="https://social.sdf.org/tags/hacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hacker</span></a></p>