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That's a backronym; originally it meant "yet another".
by BerislavLopac 3y ago
That's a backronym; originally it meant "yet another".
- deathanatos 3y agoThe current acronym is old enough to drink. The original acronym, AFAICT looking through The Wayback Machine, lasted less than a year. (The original language was pretty wildly different, and much closer to a markup language.) For those that don't want to wait for the time capsule, here is the earliest example of it (I've shortened it from the original for brevity; best I can gather this should also have been valid): <timesheet.clarkevans.com:record> <person:record> <id:int> 293945</id:int> <name:record> <given> Clark</given> <family> Evans</family></name:record></person:record> </timesheet.clarkevans.com:record> You can feel the XML influence. Oddly it kept the "Another" well into the evolution of not being a markup language anymore, but on the grand scale of things, didn't really keep it that long.