The geekicon.

The writer discusses the “Hacker's Dictionary” or “Jargon File” on the Internet, which is an electronic compendium of words and phrases used by Internet operators. Many of the terms in the dictionary are computer-geek slang from the 1970s or earlier; others are rarely used logical puns on the illog...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 341; pp. 76 - 77
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited December 21 1996-January 3 1997
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