> It became a buzzword soon, it was used all over. Then came up the
> technicians. Remembering the german word "furchtbar" (meaning "terrible",
> actually) they introduced the term fubar, fucked up beyond all repair. It
> later transformed to the well-known foobar. Actually, think of foobar as a
> foo with a bar over it - foo inverted.
>
> Later it was used in its current meaning by e.g. dec in their decsys
> manuals, go read it if you like, I don't have them handy.
DEC also used fubar to refer to the Failed UniBus Access Register on a VAX, but I think that was either a backronym, or thought up by somebody who wasn't already aware of the other meaning.
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