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	Jargon File
		The original Jargon File was a collection of hacker jargon from technical cultures including the MIT AI Lab[?], the Stanford AI lab[?] (SAIL), and others of the old ARPANET AI/LISP/PDP-10 communities including Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU), and Worcester Polytechnic Institute[?] (WPI).
		The Jargon File (hereafter referred to as `jargon-1' or `the File') was begun by Raphael Finkel at Stanford in 1975.
		The file was quickly renamed JARGON > (the `>' caused versioning under ITS) as a flurry of enhancements were made by Mark Crispin and Guy L. Steele Jr.[?] Unfortunately, amidst all this activity, nobody thought of correcting the term `jargon' to `slang' until the compendium had already become widely known as the Jargon File.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/Jargon_File.html (1032 words)

	Jargon 4.2, node: Jargon File 4.2.0, dated Jan 31, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		This is the Jargon File, a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor.
		This document (the Jargon File) is in the public domain, to be freely used, shared, and modified.
		The Jargon File is a common heritage of the hacker culture.
	www.science.uva.nl /~mes/jargon/t/top-orig.html (387 words)

	jargon, node: hacker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		The term `hacker' also tends to connote membership in the global community defined by the net (see network, the and Internet address).
		Hackers consider themselves something of an elite (a meritocracy based on ability), though one to which new members are gladly welcome.
		There is thus a certain ego satisfaction to be had in identifying yourself as a hacker (but if you claim to be one and are not, you'll quickly be labeled bogus).
	www.jargon.net /jargonfile/h/hacker.html (252 words)

	Hacking > The New Hacker's Dictionary > How Jargon Works > Hacker Writing Style
		Another hacker habit is a tendency to distinguish between `scare' quotes and `speech' quotes; that is, to use British-style single quotes for marking and reserve American-style double quotes for actual reports of speech or text included from elsewhere.
		One quirk that shows up frequently in the email style of Unix hackers in particular is a tendency for some things that are normally all-lowercase (including usernames and the names of commands and C routines) to remain uncapitalized even when they occur at the beginning of sentences.
		It is clear that, for many hackers, the case of such identifiers becomes a part of their internal representation (the `spelling') and cannot be overridden without mental effort (an appropriate reflex because Unix and C both distinguish cases and confusing them can lead to lossage).
	www.hacking.teleactivities.net /dictionary/writing.htm (2293 words)

	THE HACKER's JARGON:
		Hackers that engage in such "dark side" activities are generally identified as "Dark side hackers," and they are often shunned by the rest of the community for giving them a bad name.
		Hackers are noted for describing their human-human interactions in human-computer terms, and thus they often express surprise over criticisms of the way they "interface" with people, since they look at communication as primarily being data exchange.
		Because new hackers are so afraid of being 'narced' or busted by law enforcement, the jargon of the hacker functions like a Masonic grip - people know who another hacker is in cyberspace by the use of their jargon, and thus avoid accidentally 'blabbing' to the feds.
	www.fiu.edu /~mizrachs/cudisc.html (7839 words)

	NetLingo.com Dictionary of Internet Terms: Online Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		In another sense, the term "hacker" tends to connote membership within a global community defined by computer networks; it implies that the person subscribes to some version of the hacker ethic.
		Hacker wannabes take note: It is better to be described as a hacker by others than to describe oneself that way.
		Most hackers consider themselves something of an elite (a meritocracy based on ability), although new members are said to be gladly welcome.
	www.netlingo.com /right.cfm?term=hacker (222 words)

	The New Hacker's Dictionary - Jargon Construction
		A very conspicuous feature of jargon is the frequency with which techspeak items such as names of program tools, command language primitives, and even assembler opcodes are applied to contexts outside of computing wherever hackers find amusing analogies to them.
		Hackers have a strong aversion to bureaucratic bafflegab and regard those who use it with contempt.
		This isn't done in a naive way; hackers don't personalize their stuff in the sense of feeling empathy with it, nor do they mystically believe that the things they work on every day are `alive'.
	www.instinct.org /texts/jargon-file/jargon_5.html (1416 words)

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		Hacker slang is unusually rich in implications of this kind, of overtones and undertones that illuminate the hackish psyche.
		Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fiat; designed by committee, crockish, difficult to use, and overall a disastrous, multi-billion-dollar boondoggle (one common description is "The PL/I of the 1980s").
		Hackers tend not to think of the things they themselves run as apps; thus, in hacker parlance the term excludes compilers, program editors, games, and messaging systems, though a user would consider all those to be apps.
	ftp.sunet.se /jargon/oldversions/jarg2910.txt (12588 words)

	Jargon File - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The original Jargon File was a collection of hacker slang from technical cultures including the MIT AI Lab, the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL), and others of the old ARPANET AI/LISP/PDP-10 communities including Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN), Carnegie Mellon University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).
		However, jargon is a misnomer as the editors of the file have always tried to avoid the inclusion of strict computer jargon (i.e.: technical terms) as opposed to slang used by hackers.
		Even as the advent of the microcomputer and other trends fueled a tremendous expansion of hackerdom, the File (and related materials such as the AI Koans in Appendix A) came to be seen as a sort of sacred epic, a hacker-culture Matter of Britain chronicling the heroic exploits of the Knights of the Lab.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jargon_File (1317 words)

	hacker - The Jargon File v4.4.7
		There is thus a certain ego satisfaction to be had in identifying yourself as a hacker (but if you claim to be one and are not, you'll quickly be labeled
		This term seems to have been first adopted as a badge in the 1960s by the hacker culture surrounding TMRC and the MIT AI Lab.
		We have a report that it was used in a sense close to this entry's by teenage radio hams and electronics tinkerers in the mid-1950s.
	www.retrologic.com /jargon/H/hacker.html (356 words)

	Some definitions
		The belief that information-sharing is a powerful positive good, and that it is an ethical duty of hackers to share their expertise by writing free software and facilitating access to information and to computing resources wherever possible.
		The most reliable manifestation of either version of the hacker ethic is that almost all hackers are actively willing to share technical tricks, software, and (where possible) computing resources with other hackers.
		Ethical considerations aside, hackers figure that anyone who can't imagine a more interesting way to play with their computers than breaking into someone else's has to be pretty losing.
	www.ecst.csuchico.edu /~beej/chg/defin.html (1041 words)

	Hacker definition controversy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The wider dominance of the pejorative connotation is resented by many who identify themselves as hackers, objecting to their historically preferred self-identification taken from their cultural jargon and used negatively.
		"Hacker" can therefore be seen as a shibboleth, identifying those who use the technically-oriented sense (as opposed to the exclusively intrusion-oriented sense) as members of the computing community.
		The primary weakness of this analogy is the popular usage of "hacker" to also describe script kiddies, despite their lack of an underlying skill and knowledge base.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hacker_definition_controversy (2366 words)

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		Because hackers as a group are particularly creative people who define themselves partly by rejection of `normal' values and working habits, it has unusually rich and conscious traditions for an intentional culture less than 40 years old.
		Among hackers, though, slang has a subtler aspect, paralleled perhaps in the slang of jazz musicians and some kinds of fine artists but hard to detect in most technical or scientific cultures; parts of it are code for shared states of _consciousness_.
		Hackers are nearly unanimous in observing that, technically, it is precisely what one might expect given that kind of endorsement by fiat; designed by committee, crockish, difficult to use, and overall a disastrous, multi-billion-dollar boondoggle (one common description wss "The PL/I of the 1980s").
	ftp.sunet.se /jargon/oldversions/jarg421.txt (19317 words)

	The Jargon file
		The intent was to be able to sell the hackers' ways of doing software to industry and the mainstream by avoid the negative connotations (to suits) of the term "free software".
		It is anachronism in that it used to document the jargon of a specific era - nobody has bothered about it in ages and most of it is about as relevant as ESR to Open Source, that is not all that much.
		Jargon File gives the reader a good idea what the Internet was before its explosion in popularity in 1994 (Web explosion) and it is available as a text file from the net.
	www.softpanorama.org /Bookshelf/Classic/jargon_file.shtml (4353 words)

	The Hacker's Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Welcome to The Hacker's Dictionary, a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor.
		The Hacker's Dictionary is a common heritage of the hacker culture.
		This document (The Hacker's Dictionary) is in the public domain, to be freely used, shared, and modified.
	www.hackersdictionary.com /html/index.html (311 words)

	What Is a Hacker? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		The “Hacker Jargon File” (Version 2.9.6, 16 August 1991), adds that “Hacking might be characterized as `an appropriate application of ingenuity'.
		Whether the result is a quick-and-dirty patchwork job or a carefully crafted work of art, you have to admire the cleverness that went into it.
		Also, see the Real Hackers series of Guides to (mostly) Harmless Hacking to learn more about how some of the best hackers learned their magic.
	www.happyhacker.org /define.shtml (265 words)

	The New Hacker's Dictionary
		When talking about the jargon there is therefore no convenient way to distinguish it from what a linguist would call hackers' jargon -- the formal vocabulary they learn from textbooks, technical papers, and manuals.
		`jargon': without qualifier, denotes informal `slangy' language peculiar to or predominantly found among hackers -- the subject of this lexicon.
		It is a particular pleasure to acknowledge the major contributions of Mark Brader and Steve Summit to the File and Dictionary; they have read and reread many drafts, checked facts, caught typos, submitted an amazing number of thoughtful comments, and done yeoman service in catching typos and minor usage bobbles.
	www.eps.mcgill.ca /jargon/jargon.html (15758 words)

	The Online Hacker Jargon File
		There is a book called The New Hacker's Dictionary.It is the print version of a source on the web called The Online Hacker Jargon File.
		This file, together with the related files describing its history, how hackers construct jargon, hacker writing style, etc., is the work of Eric S. Raymond.
		This Jargon File, a continuing work-in-progress, is not a source of information about current corporate or Wall Street information technology terms.
	www.jamesshuggins.com /h/tek1/jargon_file.htm (340 words)

	Hacker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		John Hacker was born January 1st 1743 (Old Style Calendar) somewhere near Marlborough Point, Stafford County,...
		Descrição: hacker (#37) r c "You have been expelled from %i by %n." hacker (#37) r c "You expel %d from %i." hacker (#37) r c "%D is unceremoniously expelled from %i by %n." unreadable unreadable
		Descrição: tudo sobre hackers se voce e um hacker ou quer ser um hacker kra nao da outra venha aki e aprenda a invadir provedoras.
	members.tripod.com /~CeciliaGusmao/hackertwo.htm (2544 words)

	Jargon - Revision History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		The maintainers are committed to updating the on-line version of the Jargon File through and beyond paper publication, and will continue to make it available to archives and public-access sites as a trust of the hacker community.
		Many items of UNIX, C, USENET, and microcomputer-based jargon were added at that time (as well as The Untimely Demise of Mabel The Monkey).
		It is a particular pleasure to acknowledge the major contributions of Mark Brader and Steve Summit to the File and Dictionary; they have read and reread many drafts, checked facts, caught typos, submitted an amazing number of thoughtful comments, and did yeoman service in catching typos and minor usage bobbles.
	web.bilkent.edu.tr /Online/Jargon30/INTRO/HISTORY.HTML (1854 words)

	The Jargon File (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		Introduction: The purpose and scope of this File
		A Few Terms: Of Slang, Jargon and Techspeak
		Appendix B: A Portrait of J. Random Hacker
	eps.mcgill.ca /jargon/html (459 words)

	Jargon File Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-09)
		This page indexes all the WWW resources associated with the Jargon File and its print version,
		It's as official as anything associated with the Jargon File gets.
		On 23 October 2003, the Jargon File achieved the dubious honor of being cited in the SCO-vs.-IBM lawsuit.
	www.catb.org /~esr/jargon (102 words)

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		hackers are simply a bit ahead of the curve.
		or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the
		Of or pertaining to hackers or the hacker subculture.
	users.tmok.com /~tumble/jargon.html (12741 words)

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