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@poster983 there's a good wiki page on recursive acronyms and what a lot of them mean! It has a whole computer based section too.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Some of them hurt my brain. -
mog13328yPhp is php hypertext preprocessor
Though if you look into these a lot of them are "backronyms" that have either made the acronym to fit there already chosen name or somewhere down the line changed their minds -
GNU HURD will blow your mind.
GNU = GNU's not Unix
HURD = HIRD of Unix Replacing Daemons
HIRD = HURD of Interfaces Representing Depth -
nmunro31888y@syssykat Maybe, but a Gnu is an animal, a type of wildebeest, I think, but don't quote me on that. So it probably made for creating an easy mascot to have something that fit like that too.
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