The Foomobile Rides Again

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Rachel at blogs4God wonders why hackers and geeks use the word “foo” so much. Well, Rachel, the word has a long history. The short form is that it was in use at the MIT Artificial Intelligence lab at the dawn of hacker culture. From there, it has become the most popular metasyntactic variable in American hacker culture.

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3 Responses to “The Foomobile Rides Again”

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   Dan Says:
   January 1st, 2005 at 12:06 am

   Foomobile pictures will soon be found on http://www.gigawatt6.com

   Dan

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   Dan Says:
   March 19th, 2005 at 2:22 am

   The new foomobile web site

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   Dan Says:
   March 23rd, 2005 at 8:29 pm

   The foomobile web site is working http://www.foomobile.com