Task #7: Updating “ICQ” origins in the “Do not trust the Shover Robot” entry
July 19, 2007
This one is very trivial and easy, perhaps so unimportant as to not even merit doing? You decide:
“Hi Zombie!
Great dictionary you’ve got there!
I’ve got a small thing that you may or may not want to use… I’m offering it for you because your work can be just a little bit more perfect than it already is…
Under the entry for “Do not trust the Shover Robot” you include a small explaination for “ICQ” which pretty closely follows the Wikipedia definition, which unfortunately is slightly incomplete.
Yes, ICQ is a shorthand way of saying “I seek you” but it wasn’t entirely coined by the people that invented the ICQ instant messenger. It is an expansion on ‘CQ’ (”seek you”) which actually is an 100+ year old radio call invented by the Marconi Company in 1904 and adopted internationally in 1912. It is still in wide use today by amateur radio people worldwide (including your truly).
For further details, go check the source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CQ_%28call%29 “
Anyone want to update the “Do not trust the Shover Robot” definition?
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