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Title: still part of the canon
Review: Anyone buying this book thinking they're getting a guide to current slang has missed the point. For that, they can subscribe to Wired. This book is valuable more for historic reasons than any others. I don't mean to belittle the worthwhile efforts made by the maintainers to incorporate current slang, but at any given time the "fresh" material is outweighed by 20-30 years' worth of semi-archival material. And that's as it should be. If anything, ESR tends to phase entries out too quickly. I'd rather see TNHD be the OED than the Entertainment Tonight of computer culture, know what I mean?(No, I'm not some old fart longing for the glory days of the PDP-1 and TMRC. I'm just a CS student raised on Unix who feels we as a subculture have a heritage that's worth preserving. Maybe the Jargon File/TNHD can serve two purposes, but I think the historical one is more important.)
