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1960s : The term officially entered #computer culture through the Tech Model Railroad Club (#TMRC) at #MIT. The students, who were among the world's first computer hackers, combined the existing #nonsense word "foo" with the military slang "#FUBAR" to create "#foobar". They split it into two separate placeholder names — foo and bar — to represent generic components, variables, or functions.
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thinking about the magic ingredients that foster #tech #innovation. #XeroxPARC, #BellLabs, and #MIT's #TMRC appear frequently in the annals of #history - at least those I've read.
The #question is - how do we create such centers of innovation?
I'm still putting it together but I suspect there are at least four:
1 Time- Insane and copious amounts of it
2 Community- Multiple individuals who interact syngeristically
3 Space- A shared space for innovation to occur
4 Equipment- Raw materials1/5
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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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@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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@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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@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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@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