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Inspired by Cajori’s A History of Mathematical Notations, and/or TV Tropes.
https://superuser.com/questions/784978/why-did-the-ietf-specifically-choose-192-168-16-to-be-a-private-ip-address-class https://cmpct.info/~calvin/Articles/Network10/Network10.htm
https://dhhumanist.org/volume/34/54/ (via @hwayne)
Signals
E.g. Forth users are called “Forthwrights”. (Thinking Forth, p. 142)
See: https://twitter.com/lizhenry/status/1165760903809130496?s=20
Requested by the NSA? Many more fun tidbits here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.arch/UXEi7G6WHuU/Z2z7fC7Xhr8J
Literals
Babbage uses the term “litteral constant” (once!) in his _Passages from the Life of a Philosopher_; it appears that in his case he means an inline constant as opposed to...
as stated in https://www.youtube.com/embed/0fpDlAEQio4
https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/decision-tables/ Also has a link to a history.