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A comment on The Jargon File.

Re:The Jargon File by dfalzone on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:31AM (#24662374)
How come the Jargon File hasn't been updated since 2003?
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Re:The Jargon File by sarah180 on Friday October 02, 2020 @11:50AM (#24663860)
World of Warcraft came out in 2004. Coincidence?
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Re:The Jargon File by bitwize on Friday October 02, 2020 @01:34PM (#24664929)
ESR doesn't play that WoW. (Apparently he is fond of World of Warships, which he plays using Steam and Proton.) I think he just wanted to focus on gpsd and ntpsec, rather than maintain Jargon, especially since hacker culture a) ceased to exist as a thing distinct from the broader developer culture; b) started changing too rapidly for a maintainer to keep up.
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Re:The Jargon File by sarah180 on Friday October 02, 2020 @03:25PM (#24666164)
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story!
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