The original
Jargon File as it was called (at least in
1982 by some on
Usenet). It was a collection of
hacker jargon from technical cultures including the
MIT AI Lab, the
Stanford AI lab (
SAIL), and others of the old
ARPANET AI/
LISP/
PDP-10 communities including
Bolt, Beranek and Newman,
Carnegie-Mellon University, and
Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It was begun by
Raphael Finkel at
Stanford in 1975. From that time until
1991, when the plug was pulled on the
SAIL computer where the File was located, it was named AIWORD.RF[UP,DOC]. The versions were all unnumbered and are collectively considered "Version 1".
In 1976, Mark Crispin FTPed a copy of the File to MIT where it was, shortly after, renamed to JARGON >. In 1990, Eric S. Raymond released Version 2.1.1 of the Jargon File after its seven-year hiatus.
Modified and adapted to Everything 2 from the Jargon File, version 4.2.2, 20 AUG 2000.