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The Jargon File

  • Welcome to the Jargon File
  • Part I - Introduction
    • Chapter 1. Hacker Slang and Hacker Culture
    • Chapter 2. Of Slang, Jargon, and Techspeak
    • Chapter 3. Revision History
    • Chapter 4. Jargon Construction
      • Verb Doubling
      • Soundalike Slang
      • The -P Convention
      • Overgeneralization
      • Spoken inarticulations
      • Anthropomorphization
      • Comparatives
    • Chapter 5. Hacker Writing Style
    • Chapter 6. Email Quotes and Inclusion Conventions
    • Chapter 7. Hacker Speech Style
    • Chapter 8. International Style
    • Chapter 9. Crackers, Phreaks, and Lamers
    • Chapter 10. Pronunciation Guide
    • Chapter 11. Other Lexicon Conventions
    • Chapter 12. Format for New Entries
  • Part II - The Jargon Lexicon
    • Glossary
  • Part III - Appendices
    • Appendix A. Hacker Folklore
      • The Meaning of ‘Hack’
      • TV Typewriters: A Tale of Hackish Ingenuity
      • A Story About ‘Magic'
      • Some AI Koans
        • Tom Knight and the Lisp Machine
        • Moon instructs a student
        • Sussman attains enlightenment
        • Drescher and the toaster
      • OS and JEDGAR
      • The Story of Mel
    • Appendix B. A Portrait of J. Random Hacker
      • General Appearance
      • Dress
      • Reading Habits
      • Other Interests
      • Physical Activity and Sports
      • Education
      • Things Hackers Detest and Avoid
      • Food
      • Politics
      • Gender and Ethnicity
      • Religion
      • Ceremonial Chemicals
      • Communication Style
      • Geographical Distribution
      • Sexual Habits
      • Personality Characteristics
      • Weaknesses of the Hacker Personality
      • Miscellaneous
    • Appendix C. Helping Hacker Culture Grow
    • Bibliography

The Jargon File

  • Table of Contents
    • Welcome to the Jargon File
    • Part I - Introduction
    • Part II - The Jargon Lexicon
    • Part III - Appendices




Cartoons

The crunchly saga

Hi, this is Crunchly :-)

The infamous Crunchly cartoons by The Great Quux are woven into the lexicon, each next to an appropriate entry. To read them in the sequence in which they were written, chase pointers from here using the ‘next cartoon’ information in the captions.





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