Historical Glossary

Browse 2 historical terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

2 Historical Terms

Phreaking

The practice of exploiting telephone systems, the precursor to computer hacking. Captain Crunch (John Draper) discovered that a toy whistle from Cap'n Crunch...

Turing Test

A test proposed by Alan Turing in which a human evaluator converses with both a human and a machine; if the evaluator can't reliably distinguish which is...

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