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• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• AUP /A-U-P/ Abbreviation, "Acceptable Use Policy".
  The policy of a given ISP which sets out what the ISP considers to be (un)acceptable uses of its Internet resources....
• Brief History Of Linux (#12) A note from Bill Gates' second grade teache
  Billy has been having some trouble behaving in class lately....
• BASIC /bay'-sic/ n. A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960
  which for many years was the leading cause of brain damage in proto-hackers....
• mailing list n. (often shortened in context to `list') 1.
  An email address that is an alias (or macro, though that word is never used in this connection) for many other email addresses....
• Physical Activity and Sports: Many (perhaps even most) hackers don't follow or do sports at all and are determinedly anti-physical.
  Among those who do, interest in spectator sports is low to non-existe...
• Brief History Of Linux (#24) Linus Torvalds quotes from his interview in "LinuxNews" (October 1992)
  "I doubt Linux will be here to stay, and maybe Hurd is the wave of the future (and maybe not)....
• Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.
  Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain but there in the sandbox at nursery school....
• If no one uses something, it isn't needed. -- Robert Somme