All hobbies and fields create their own slang. The retro world has a gigantic library of words for the skilled, the unskilled and various computers and programs. DJ Daemon digs through words and the cool explanations that really makes you understand the attitude of true hackers. Not the kind that breaks into stuff, but the hackers that builds, programs and creates. Sit down and take a guess what hackerwasser is, why the net isn’t dead yet and why Amiga users feel persecuted (no, we don’t! Or do we?)
Playlist:I have long loved the idea of computer era slang, and the "Jargon file" is legendary. I had to create this episode.Colophone"Grok" is a computer era slang word, meaning to understand intuitively. So it means, "Do you understand the lingo". Lingo is slang for... slang or language. Grok is from Robert A. Heinlein's book "Stranger in a strange land".
Tags: Retro history, Storytelling, Host: DJ Daemon, Eric S. Raymond, Jargon file
