Foo Bar came from model trains at MIT

Foo Bar came from model trains at MIT(blog.skill-issue.dev)

2 points by daxdev 1 year ago | 2 comments

serf 1 year ago |

neat.

I always figured it was just a tongue-in-cheek purposeful corruption of the 1940s FUBAR military jargon, but admittedly I never went searching for the origin.

ahazred8ta 1 year ago | |

FOO came first in the 1930s; it was pervasively used by the Smokey Stover comic strip. Then, students reinterpreted german furchtbar (awful) as the spoken term FOO-BAR. That became the backronym FUBAR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2pljKyCgwc