(TMRC) at MIT c. 1960. Material marked TMRC is from "An
Abridged Dictionary of the TMRC Language", originally compiled
by Pete Samson in 1959

UCLA
University of California at Los Angeles

UK
the United Kingdom (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland)

Usenet
See the [166]Usenet entry

WPI
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, site of a very active
community of PDP-10 hackers during the 1970s

WWW
The World-Wide-Web.

XEROX PARC
XEROX's Palo Alto Research Center, site of much pioneering
research in user interface design and networking

Yale
Yale University

Some other etymology abbreviations such as [167]Unix and [168]PDP-10
refer to technical cultures surrounding specific operating systems,
processors, or other environments. The fact that a term is labelled