wine - Just noticed on "winehq" that the acronym for "Wine" is "Wine Is Not an Emulator". This i - devRant

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AnonymousGuy

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Like GNU. "GNU'S Not Unix"
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poster983

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@AnonymousGuy I never knew that was a thing!
(Also)
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DOES NOT COMPUTE!
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KeyWeeUsr

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@AnonymousGuy I was literally writing the same thing :D
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AnonymousGuy

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@poster983 there's a good wiki page on recursive acronyms and what a lot of them mean! It has a whole computer based section too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Some of them hurt my brain.
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AnonymousGuy

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XNA — XNA's Not Acronymed

..is a favourite.
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poster983

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@AnonymousGuy, this is my brain thanks to you. :)
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AnonymousGuy

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@poster983
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poster983

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@AnonymousGuy I cannot top that... Yet.
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mog13

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Php is php hypertext preprocessor

Though if you look into these a lot of them are "backronyms" that have either made the acronym to fit there already chosen name or somewhere down the line changed their minds
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slowinversesqrt

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GNU HURD will blow your mind.

GNU = GNU's not Unix
HURD = HIRD of Unix Replacing Daemons
HIRD = HURD of Interfaces Representing Depth
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nmunro

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@syssykat Maybe, but a Gnu is an animal, a type of wildebeest, I think, but don't quote me on that. So it probably made for creating an easy mascot to have something that fit like that too.

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