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From: kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards,news.misc
Subject: Re: History
Message-ID: <913@bakerst.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 06:51:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 21 06:51:12 1987
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Reply-To: kathy@bakerst.UUCP (Kathy Vincent)
Organization: Chocoholics Anonymous UnLtd, Winston-Salem, NC
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Keywords: History, foo, bar
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In article <1386@osiris.UUCP> jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jolly C. Pancakes) writes:
>
>	This is a good time to point out that the acronyms "snafu" 
>... and "fubar" ... were kicking around in WWII, if not earlier.
>Beats me how fubar got transmuted into everyone's favorite Mutt & Jeff
>file names.


Probably because the military was very actively involved in the
early stages of The Beginnings of Computers, and they would quite
naturally have "lent" some of their favourite jargon to the new field.  
And those words are intrinsically interesting enough to have caught
on fast and been used furiously.  :-)


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