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The definitive version is online:
-http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/
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+(Note: for hundreds of years, until sometime in early 2003, it __was__ at
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http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/ but has now moved, breaking millions of links!)
Here are the first few paragraphs of the introduction to the Jargon File:
__Introduction__
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The `hacker culture' is actually a loosely networked collection of subcultures that is nevertheless conscious of some important shared experiences, shared roots, and shared values. It has its own myths, heroes, villains, folk epics, in-jokes, taboos, and dreams. Because hackers as a group are particularly creative people who define themselves partly by rejection of `normal' values and working habits, it has unusually rich and conscious traditions for an intentional culture less than 40 years old.
As usual with slang, the special vocabulary of hackers helps hold their culture together -- it helps hackers recognize each other's places in the community and expresses shared values and experiences. Also as usual, not knowing the slang (or using it inappropriately) defines one as an outsider, a mundane, or (worst of all in hackish vocabulary) possibly even a suit. All human cultures use slang in this threefold way -- as a tool of communication, and of inclusion, and of exclusion.
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-''Chaos reigns within.%%%
-Reflect, repent and reboot.%%%
-Order shall return.''
