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At some point the lines crossed between people whose first exposure was the old "FUBAR" and those whose first exposure was the tech "foo/bar/baz". I wonder whe
by jollyllama 2y ago
At some point the lines crossed between people whose first exposure was the old "FUBAR" and those whose first exposure was the tech "foo/bar/baz".
I wonder when it was.
- marssaxman 2y agoI imagine that many of us who got into programming through the 1980s home computer boom encountered the terms "foo" and "bar" before we were old enough that adults would have felt comfortable using "FUBAR" around us.
- lupusreal 2y agoIn my experience, adults were comfortable saying FUBAR around kids but didn't explain it to be an acronym. I learned it simply as a regular word, which though context I understood to mean something was badly messed up.