Reddit reviews The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition

I think it's The New Hackers Dictionary

Jargon File 4.4.7 2003

The New Hacker's Dictionary 3rd Ed. 1996

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OK, in terms of Authority Figures, how about the Internet Engineering Task Force?

Or, if you want historical documents, you can't beat The Jargon File (Note: If you insist on a dead tree version of that, We got you covered there, too - note how A) it's the 3rd edition, and B) it's copy written 1996, which means the first and second editions are even older.

I've yet to see a single source that's older to say otherwise. If you know of one, I'd love to see it.

The ultimate bathroom book is the New Hacker's Dictionary, based on the famous jargon file. It is a list of old computing slang and terminology up to, mostly, the 1980s.

Where known, the origin of the term is listed (this is edited by Eric Raymond), and you'll see a lot of schools you expect - MIT, Stanford (SAIL), etc.

You'll also see Rutgers pop up a surprising amount of times.

I used to study over on Busch in a basement in...I forget the building. This was the early 90s when they still had PLATO terminals set up and working. The whole building seemed to hum with technology.

I wasn't majoring in anything technical but even then Rutgers had a surprisingly high-tech groove. There are Usenet posts out there that I made in 1993 from the Livingston library. Thanks to Rutgers, I got on the Internet via shell (for free) in 1991. Maybe a lot of Universities offered those accounts universally to students but I remember actually staying up all night to get into the library when it opened in the morning, just to screw around on FTP sites.