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foobar |
3 definitions found From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: foobar n. [very common] Another widely used {metasyntactic variable}; see {foo} for etymology. Probably originally propagated through DECsystem manuals by Digital Equipment Corporation ({DEC}) in 1960s and early 1970s; confirmed sightings there go back to 1972. Hackers do _not_ generally use this to mean {FUBAR} in either the slang or jargon sense See also {Fred Foobar}. In RFC1639, FOOBAR" was made an abbreviation for "FTP Operation Over Big Address Records", but this was an obvious {backronym}. It has been plausibly suggested that foobar" spread among early computer engineers partly because of FUBAR and partly and partly because "foo bar" parses in electronics techspeak as an inverted foo signal; if a digital signal is coded so that a positive voltage or high current condition represents a "1", then a horizontal bar is commonly placed over the signal label. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: foobar Another common {metasyntactic variable}; see {foo}. Hackers do *not* generally use this to mean {FUBAR} in either the slang or jargon sense [{Jargon File}] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: FOOBAR FTP Operation Over Big Address Records (RFC 1639, FTP)
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