Great Renaming n.
The flag day in 1987 on which all of
the non-local groups on the Usenet had their names changed
from the net.- format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme.
Used esp. in discussing the history of newsgroup names. "The
oldest sources group is comp.sources.misc; before the Great
Renaming, it was net.sources." There is a
Great Renaming FAQ on the Web.
The flag day in 1987 on which all of
the non-local groups on the Usenet had their names changed
from the net.- format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme.
Used esp. in discussing the history of newsgroup names. "The
oldest sources group is comp.sources.misc; before the Great
Renaming, it was net.sources." There is a
Great Renaming FAQ on the Web.
Related:
- Great Renaming: n. The {flag day} in 1985 on which all of the
non-local groups on the {USENET} had their names changed from
the net.
format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme.... - net.- /net dot/ pref.
[Usenet] Prefix used to describe
people and events related to Usenet.
From the time before the Great Renaming, when most... - net.-: /net dot/ pref. [USENET] Prefix used to describe people and
events related to USENET.
From the time before the {Great Renaming}, when... - By the time of the Great Renaming, net.suicide, along with net.rumors,
was mainly populated by refugees from net.bizarre,... - backbone cabal: n. A group of large-site administrators who pushed
through the {Great Renaming} and reined in the chaos of {USENET}
during most of the 1980s.
The cabal {mailing list} disbanded in late 1988... - backbone cabal n.
A group of large-site administrators who
pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of
Usenet during most of the 1980s.
During most of its lifetime, the Cabal (as it was... - sitename /si:t'naym/ n.
[Unix/Internet] The unique
electronic name of a computer system,
used to identify it in UUCP mail, Usenet, or other... - sitename: /si:t'naym/ [UNIX/Internet] n. The unique electronic
name of a computer system,
used to identify it in UUCP mail, USENET, or other... - newgroup wars /n[y]oo'groop worz/ n.
[Usenet] The salvos of
dueling newgroup and rmgroup messages sometimes
exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a
newsgroup should be created net-wide,
or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one...
From the same category:
- precedence lossage /pre's*-dens los'*j/ n.
[C
programmers] Coding error in an expression due to unexpected
grouping of arithmetic or logical operators by the compiler.
Used esp. of... - gorilla arm n.
The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens
as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the
early 1980s.
It seems the designers of all those spiffy ... - vadding /vad'ing/ n.
[from VAD, a permutation of ADV
(i.e.
ADVENT), used to avoid a particular admin's continual... - pnambic /p*-nam'bik/
[Acronym from the scene in the film
version of "The Wizard of Oz" in which the true nature of the
wizard is first discovered:
"Pay no attention to the man behind the... - blue box
n. 1. obs. Once upon a time, before
all-digital switches made it possible for the phone companies to
move them out of band,
one could actually hear the switching tones used...
