The [hacker's] jargon file
dc.contributor | Michael Hart, Project Gutenberg |
dc.contributor.editor | Raymond, Eric S. |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T11:05:36Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T11:05:36Z |
dc.date.created | 1991-08-01 |
dc.date.issued | 1992-01-15 |
dc.identifier | ota:1500 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1500 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1500 |
dc.description.abstract | Mode of access: Online. OTA website A bibliography appears at the end of the text First printed publication resulting from this work: The Hacker's dictionary : a guide to the world of computer wizards / Guy L. Steele, Jr. ... [et al.]. -- New York : Harper & Row, c1983. -- (Colophon books ; CN 1082). Second printed publication resulting from this work: The New hacker's dictionary / edited by Eric Raymond ; illustrated by Guy C. Steele, Jr. -- Cambridge, Mass ; London : MIT Press, 1991 |
dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 952 KB) |
dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
dc.relation.ispartof | Legacy Collection Digital Museum |
dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.subject.lcsh | Dictionaries -- United States -- 20th century |
dc.subject.other | Electronic publications -- United States -- 20th century |
dc.title | The [hacker's] jargon file |
dc.type | Text |
has.files | yes |
branding | Oxford Text Archive |
files.size | 981082 |
files.count | 2 |
otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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============ THIS IS THE JARGON FILE, VERSION 2.9.6, 16 AUG 1991 ============
This document (the Jargon File) is in the public domain, to be freely
used, shared, and modified. There are (by intention) no legal
restraints on what you can do with it, but there are traditions about
its proper use to which many hackers are quite strongly attached.
Please extend the courtesy of proper citation when you quote the File,
ideally with a version number, as it will change and grow over time.
(Examples of appropropriate citation form: "Jargon File 2.9.4" or
"The on-line hacker Jargon File, version 2.9.4, July 1991".)
The Jargon File is a common heritage of the hacker culture.
Over the years a number of individuals have volunteered considerable
time to maintaining the File and been recognized by the net at large
as editors of it. Editorial responsibilities include: to collate
contributions and suggestions from others; to seek out corroborating
information; to cross-reference related entries; to . . .