Entries tagged with “gigo” from Garbage In, Garbage Out

What is gigo you might ask?

The Hacker's Dictionary has this to say:

GIGO:

/gi:'goh/ [acronym] 1. `Garbage In, Garbage Out' -- usually said in response to lusers who complain that a program didn't "do the right thing" when given imperfect input or otherwise mistreated in some way. Also commonly used to describe failures in human decision making due to faulty, incomplete, or imprecise data. 2. `Garbage In, Gospel Out': this more recent expansion is a sardonic comment on the tendency human beings have to put excessive trust in `computerized' data.

For the purposes of this site, it was given new meaning several years
ago. I applied the GIGO name to a software package I
wrote. The primary purpose of that package was to translate messages
between a hobby based system called Fidonet to the Internet. The name
Garbage In, Garbage Out seemed rather suitable, given the nature
of what was being transfered.

This site is now primarily a home for hobbyists. It provides
free services to hobby groups and individuals who contribute to the
community.

Do not send registrations for GIGO to me. The address in the docs is wrong; and the product is dead. For some period of time you might be able to use the following form to generate a key. If you do not know what the product was, then you likely don't need this key, either. This site is not about keys for other software packages (look for your warez elsewhere).

A time not so long ago, the online world was a very different place.  The online community was for the most part a network of amateur-ran bulletin board systems (BBS's), and the Internet was a place for scientists, geeks, students, and those with money.  Back then, a 56k line could carry the Usenet newsgroups and move email, as well as provide telnet 24 hours a day, and cost hundreds of dollars..  The amateur community interfaced various applications with their BBS's, to bring the internet email and newsgroups to their BBS's, in order to offer a low cost way of getting email to their users.