Boris Tschirschwitz wrote: >I guess one could say that many of you are standing in the CS stable for >quite some time. Could you tell me once and for all who came up with >'foo', 'bar', 'baz' and so on and what's the deal with it? > > http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3092.txt has some information (but notice the publication date). http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/f/foo.html