"Fnord" () is a word coined in 1965 by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill in the Discordian religious text Principia Discordia.
The phrase "I have seen the fnords" was graffitied on a British railway bridge throughout the 1980s and 1990s, until the bridge was upgraded.
You can see an image of the "I HAVE SEEN THE FNORDS" graffiti captured on October 26, 1982 by Walwyn here. ==Usage== The lack of a clear definition of the word, and its popularity among certain groups on the internet, allowed it to be appropriated as a placeholder word (a metasyntactic variable) in computer programming, particularly by those with ties to Discordianism or the Church of the SubGenius.
The phrase "I have seen the fnords" was graffitied on a British railway bridge throughout the 1980s and 1990s, until the bridge was upgraded.
It has also been found useful as the name for a "techno cultural" conference, computer programs, and as a general placeholder word in computing literature. Fnord! is the name of a (now defunct) freeware NT web server created by Brian Morin in 1995 and transferred to the care of Stephen Kazmierczak in 1997 when Brian was initiated into the summer Internet Server group at Microsoft.
It has also been found useful as the name for a "techno cultural" conference, computer programs, and as a general placeholder word in computing literature. Fnord! is the name of a (now defunct) freeware NT web server created by Brian Morin in 1995 and transferred to the care of Stephen Kazmierczak in 1997 when Brian was initiated into the summer Internet Server group at Microsoft.
A comparison of the features of Fnord! and the Microsoft PWS can be made by exploring the Fnord! server documentation here: Fnord! A Windows 95 Web Server. Paulo Goode, a typeface designer from West Cork, Ireland, created a humanist serif font named Fnord in 2016 which contains 23 fonts in five weights.
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