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There was this thing called the Jargon File. Then it was taken over by a rogue person who removed some things which didn't fit his personal liking and put in so
by xorcist 2y ago
There was this thing called the Jargon File. Then it was taken over by a rogue person who removed some things which didn't fit his personal liking and put in some other things. There was a lot of drama, but the end result was a skewed file that emphasized certain parts of hacker culture over others.
It might be good to know that you linked to the version which one person had outsized influence of, and should probably not be used to write history from. Except history on early Internet drama, perhaps.
- justinpombrio 2y agoCan the original be found somewhere?
- js2 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753841 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41753841
- douglee650 2y agoWas not aware of this, I've been reading the file since like … a very long time. I did always find the "Portrait of J Random Hacker" pretty lame, but really enjoyed the AI Koans, especially "Moon instructs a student". -- New version has many more terms in the lexicon, but it's good to see the "canonical" terms although the foreword exhibits its own strong bias. Original is missing some of my favorites from the so-called rogue fork like "bogo sort", "magic smoke", and "big red switch" -- Link to original https://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html https://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html