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@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-11-15 11:24:14
hmm someone on hacker news claims that letter-number-letter abbreviations like i18n for internationalization comes from stenography
which disagrees with the explanation i previously heard that it came from a sysadmin at DEC abbreviating someone’s long name to fit as a username https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…