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I think its interesting that the original term 'fubar', which has an adult and cynical meaning, has morphed into something that literally could mean anything: '
by new_hackers 11y ago
I think its interesting that the original term 'fubar', which has an adult and cynical meaning, has morphed into something that literally could mean anything: 'foo' 'bar'. The fact that this thing that has no real meaning is meaningful enough to warrant a TLD, is perhaps fubar in its truest form?
- orliesaurus 11y agoyeah but foo bar has been associated with programming since forever - its like "fizz", "buzz" - inb4 the .buzz domain ? or hello."world"? I can't believe ICANN would actually let you register these (as long as you can pay for it)..
- sbierwagen 11y agoYou're about 40 years too late to complain about foo and bar being debased: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable
- new_hackers 11y agonot complaining, just observing. I realize that we have been bastardizing TLDs for a long time to cleverly apply them to programming terms (I'm looking at you .io). Perhaps '.foo' is the TLD that could mean anything?