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Common Expressions: ERIC CONSPIRACY

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Eric ConspiracyThe Eric Conspiracy is an alleged, shadowy group of mustached hackers named "Eric" that was first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous posting to the talk.bizarre newsgroup in 1987 (thought to be influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes by Monty Python). (references)

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Specialty Expressions: ERIC CONSPIRACY

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Eric ConspiracyComputingEric Conspiracy A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1986. This was doubtless influenced by the numerous "Eric" jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more mustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (of the "Allman style" described under indent style), Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP), Eric S. Raymond and about fifteen others. The organization line "Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories" now emanates regularly from more than one site. [Jargon File] (1998-10-20). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing..
Eric ConspiracyComputingEric Conspiracy n. A shadowy group of mustachioed hackers named Eric first pinpointed as a sinister conspiracy by an infamous talk.bizarre posting ca. 1987; this was doubtless influenced by the numerous `Eric' jokes in the Monty Python oeuvre. There do indeed seem to be considerably more mustachioed Erics in hackerdom than the frequency of these three traits can account for unless they are correlated in some arcane way. Well-known examples include Eric Allman (he of the `Allman style' described under indent style) and Erik Fair (co-author of NNTP); your editor has heard from more than a hundred others by email, and the organization line `Eric Conspiracy Secret Laboratories' now emanates regularly from more than one site. See the Eric Conspiracy Web Page at `http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/ecsl/' for full details. Source: Jargon File..

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