[Air-l] key terms/concepts for understanding the web

[Denise N. Rall]

Re: common terms in cyberspace

I will just add that the most common terms, virus,
code, login, newbie, server, network, etc. have
already been defined or at least as a good primary
reference one might look at the New Hacker's
Dictionary, Eric Raymond, I believe he updated it in
1998.

Many web terms came from unix terms, it's not nec. to
know unix but the defintions have been there and
broadly distributed among hacker/computing communities
for some years now.

cyber of course, from Norbert Weiner's cybernetics
(1948), also quite a vintage derivation.

I did think that cyber was greatly influenced by
sci-fi and other terms greatly influenced by hackers
(I mean good hackers here) and if we mean something
different then we need, as the previous post said,
different language or at least qualifying what we
mean, where.

Denise


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