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		syntheticnature on Feb 25, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Story About ‘Magic' (1994) Pretty sure it's older than that I recalled seeing it in this book, which Amazon gives a date of 1983 on (fits well enough with when I recall coming across the book in a public library): http://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Dictionary-Guide-Computer-Wiza... Also, it's in the 1.5.0 file: http://jargon-file.org/archive/jargon-1.5.0.dos.txt

pimlottc on Feb 25, 2015 [–]

Interesting, it seems to have disappeared between 1.5.0 and 2.2.1!

syntheticnature on Feb 25, 2015 | [–]

That is interesting -- I didn't check the 2.x revisions, and it only seems to be in 1.5.0 -- though I didn't try to go through all the intermediate files, simply stopping at a failure to find it in the previous one.

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