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Discussion on: 11 Popular Technologies and the Wackadoo Origins of Their Names

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Ben Lovy

These are fun! I've always liked bash - the "Bourne-Again Shell". I also get a kick out of the recursive acronym tradition: GNU for Gnu's Not Unix, WINE for Wine Is Not an Emulator, PHP for PHP: Hypertext Processor, PIP for PIP Installs Packages, or Allegro for the Allegro Low LEvel Game ROutine. There's dozens.

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Chase Stevens

Thanks Ben! I think my new favorite recursive acronym is "ZWEI — ZWEI Was EINE Initially"

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Ben Lovy

Hah! Mine too, now, that's amazing.

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Greg

Love it! PHP is a backronym, though, changed from "Personal Home Page". I find that even better.