May 15, 2003

Fred Foobar

n.

J. Random Hacker's cousin. Any typical human being, more or less synonymous with ‘someone’ except that Fred Foobar can be backreferenced by name later on. So Fred Foobar will enter his phone number into the database, and it'll be archived with the others. Months later, when Fred searches... See also Bloggs Family and Dr. Fred Mbogo

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:47 AM

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