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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>J. Random Hacker</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../J.html" title="J"/><link rel="previous" href="J--Random.html" title="J. Random"/><link rel="next" href="jack-in.html" title="jack in"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">J. Random Hacker</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="J--Random.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">J</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="jack-in.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="J--Random-Hacker"/><dt xmlns="" id="J--Random-Hacker"><b>J. Random Hacker</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/J rand<6E>m hak<61>r/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [very common] A mythical figure like the Unknown Soldier; the
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archetypal hacker nerd. This term is one of the oldest in the jargon,
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apparently going back to MIT in the 1960s. See
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<a href="../R/random.html"><i class="glossterm">random</i></a>, <a href="../S/Suzie-COBOL.html"><i class="glossterm">Suzie COBOL</i></a>. This
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may originally have been inspired by ‘J. Fred Muggs’, a
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show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word back in the early days
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of <a href="../T/TMRC.html"><i class="glossterm">TMRC</i></a>, and was probably influenced by
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‘J. Presper Eckert’ (one of the co-inventors of the electronic
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computer). See also <a href="../F/Fred-Foobar.html"><i class="glossterm">Fred Foobar</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="J--Random.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../J.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="jack-in.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">J. Random<6F></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>jack in</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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