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Re:What is the history of the use of "foo" and "bar" in sour... by dragonwriter on Saturday October 05, 2024 @09:02PM (#41753978)
In the 60s, women were generally infantilized, but I suspect the “it was done for the women” explanation for the drift of “fu” to the already-existing term “foo” once separate from the other part of “fubar” is a just-so story, rather than a historical fact.
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