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J. Random Hacker /J rand'm hak'r/ n.

[very common] A mythical figure like the Unknown Soldier; the

archetypal hacker nerd. This term is one of the oldest in the

jargon, apparently going back to MIT in the 1960s. See random, Suzie

COBOL. This may originally have been inspired by `J. Fred

Muggs', a show-biz chimpanzee whose name was a household word

back in the early days of TMRC, and

was probably influenced by `J. Presper Eckert' (one of the

co-inventors of the electronic computer). See also Fred Foobar.