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>