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@blacklight @DrHyde @tyil The #JargonFile started being passed around and accumulating entries through the 1970s at #Stanford, #MIT, #CarnegieMellon, Bolt Beranek and Newman, and other pre-Internet computing centers. Some terms date back to the late 1950s MIT Tech Model Railroad Club, a very early progenitor of #hacker culture.
Far more than you ever wanted to know here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jargon_File
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@lcamtuf We used to call this the wheel of reincarnation, the Wheel of Life, or the Wheel of #Saṃsāra
http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.html
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The Skeptics Book of Lists list item of the day. From the list "Twenty Professions with Unusual Superstitions".
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