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.
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