Comment by ruszki
8 days ago
If it means capture the flag, then it means a completely different capture the flag for almost everybody. I searched for it, read the first paragraph, and I still don’t know what the fuck is the topic. According to Wikipedia it’s a very new meaning. I could figure out only because of searching for “HCKSYD” and others.
Is 30 years old very new? We're on a site for tech people. I would wager most are familiar with this term.
Its article is 5 years old… So, yeah, it’s new.
Its article was reorganized (moved from plain Capture the Flag to Capture the flag (cybersecurity)) 5 years ago. It's been on Wikipedia since 2004 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Capture_the_flag&...
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Most people on this site are also familiar with the “XKCD 10000”.
But not all, so: https://xkcd.com/1053/
(Amusingly, it even uses “30 years” as the timeframe.)
Classic of course. The point being: don't make fun of people for not knowing something. In this thread we're making fun of learned helplessness.
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More acronyms?? What the heck is an XKCD??? ;)