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Just in case you're wondering, as I was ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.arpa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.arpa > While the name was originally the acrony

by jawns 8y ago

Just in case you're wondering, as I was ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.arpa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.arpa > While the name was originally the acronym for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the funding organization in the United States that developed one of the precursors of the Internet (ARPANET), it now stands for Address and Routing Parameter Area.

ktpsns 8y ago
That's a brilliant trick to depoliticise an essential part of the DNS.
- Waterluvian 8y ago
  In my town Waterloo Lutheran University became Wilfrid Laurier University. I thoroughly enjoy backronyms.
  - gowld 8y ago
    Not a backroynym, but King County, Washington retroactively changed which person named "King" is its namesake.
    - empyrical 8y ago
      There was a school called "J. Edgar Hoover School", which changed so it was named after Herbert Hoover http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-06-26/news/9406260229_1_pta-honored-president http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-06-26/news/940626022...
      - gowld 8y ago
        Shame that that article puts "cross-dressing" on par with "wire-tapping, Constitution-stomping, blackmailing, bully". We've come a long way, and still have a long way to go.