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Good Thing n.,adj. [very common; often capitalized
always pronounced as if capitalized.] 1. Self-evidently wonderful to anyone in a position to notice...
gopher n. A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web.
Gopher presents a menuing interface to a tree or graph of links; the link...
gopher hole n. 1. Any access to a gopher. 2. [Amateur Packet Radio] The terrestrial analog of a wormhole (sense 2), from which this term was coined.
A gopher hole links two amateur packe...
gorets /gor'ets/ n. The unknown ur-noun, fill in your own meaning.
Found esp. on the Usenet newsgroup alt....
gorilla arm n. The side-effect that destroyed touch-screens as a mainstream input technology despite a promising start in the early 1980s.
It seems the designers of all those spiffy touch...
gorp /gorp/ n. [CMU
GOSMACS /goz'maks/ n. [contraction of `Gosling EMACS'] The first EMACS-in-C implementation, predating but now largely eclipsed by GNUMACS.
Originally freeware; a commercial version was mo...
Gosperism /gos'p*r-izm/ n. A hack, invention, or saying due to elder days arch-hacker R.
William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them....
gotcha n.
GPL /G-P-L/ n. Abbreviation for `General Public License' in widespread use
ee copyleft, General Publi...

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