Jargon File

Chances are many of you arrive here with a hefty cultural baggage on the subjects I write about (quite possibly heftier than myself). But then again many others, upon reading a post, will find they can't connect all the dots. That's where the Jargon File comes in.

Whenever I feel some subject might be new and obscure for some, I'll try to give a brief explanation in a post called Jargon File: Subject. The post will also be tagged as JargonFile, so you can easily find all of them. I won't try to write full, in-depth primers on big subjects such as GTD, for there are way better examples out there. But a quick, basic explanation may come in handy, and I may even throw in some links for further discovery.

Why the name? you may ask. Well, back in 1975, when the Internet was a wild jungle, only for the initiated, a text file was created where the hacker's jargon was compiled an explained. Sort of an enciclopedia of the early computer hacker's culture. To cut a long story short, the file is still mantained as of today by Eric S. Raymond. You can't claim to have some level of hackerdom if you don't know the file. Specially if you belong to younger generations, take a look. It has been a long road.

But I am getting off-topic. This Jargon File post was -of course- about the Jargon File itself. Not really much to do with this blog, but I felt this needed a justification. Wait for the next one. And if you want to request a specific explanation, please do. Make a comment on the entry, and I'll be happy to do it.