Editing Fnord (section)

==Usage==
[[File:Fnord logo.JPG|thumb|right|A parody of the [[Ford Motor Company]] logo]]
The lack of a clear definition of the word, and its popularity among certain groups on the internet, allowed it to be appropriated as a [[Placeholder name|placeholder word]] (a [[metasyntactic variable]]) in computer programming,<ref name=Bautts/><ref name="Deckard2005">{{cite book|author=Jason Deckard |title=Buffer Overflow Attacks: Detect, Exploit, Prevent |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NYyKhOqOCF8C&pg=PA283 |date=29 January 2005 |publisher=Syngress |isbn=978-0-08-048842-4 |page=283}}</ref> particularly by those with ties to [[Discordianism]] or the [[Church of the SubGenius]].<ref name=Ray/> It has also been found useful as the name for a "techno cultural" conference,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.knowafest.com/2014/02/fnord-2014-northern-india-engineering-college-techno-cultural-festival-delhi.html |title=FNORD 2014, Northern India Engineering College, Delhi, Techno Cultural Festival, Delhi, March 5-7 2014 |publisher=Knowafest.com |date=2014-02-13 |access-date=2014-04-26}}</ref> computer programs,<ref name="Raucci1997">{{cite book|author=Richard Raucci |title=A Windows NTTM Guide to the Web: Covering Browsers, Servers, and Related Software |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5f3mlM-JKUAC&pg=PA50 |date=1 January 1997 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-387-94792-1 |page=50}}</ref> and as a general placeholder word in computing literature.<ref name="Linnhoff-PopienHegering2000">{{cite book|author1=Claudia Linnhoff-Popien|author-link=Claudia Linnhoff-Popien|author2=Heinz-Gerd Hegering |title=Trends in Distributed Systems: Towards a Universal Service Market: Third International IFIP/GI Working Conference, USM 2000 Munich, Germany, September 12-14, 2000 Proceedings |url=https://archive.org/details/springer_10.1007-10722515 |date=1 September 2000 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-540-41024-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/springer_10.1007-10722515/page/n71 62]}}</ref>

Fnord! is the name of a (now defunct) freeware NT web server created by Brian Morin in 1995 and transferred to the care of Stephen Kazmierczak in 1997 when Morin was initiated into the summer Internet Server group at Microsoft. In his final transmission, Morin cites concern for potential legal backlash from the established tech giant as the reason for abandoning development of the free Fnord! server solution.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wpi.edu/~bmorin/fnord/|title=Fnord has moved!|date=July 24, 1997|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19970724145533/http://www.wpi.edu/~bmorin/fnord/|archive-date=1997-07-24}}</ref> Microsoft released Windows 95 and the accompanying Microsoft Network in the same time frame, which was seen as a play by the tech giant to monopolize the emerging online experience of dial-up users by introducing a toll road style business plan for accessing the world's information.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/Discovery.Download.The.True.Story.of.the.Internet.1of4|title=Download: The True Story of the Internet: Part 1|date=March 8, 2008|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

Paulo Goode, a typeface designer from West Cork, Ireland, created a serif font named Fnord in 2016 which contains 23 fonts in five weights.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://paulogoode.com/fnord/|title=Paulo Goode Fonts: Type Foundry & Custom Typeface Design » Fnord|website=paulogoode.com}}</ref> The geometry of the upper case 'O' is drawn on an axis of 23 degrees while the lower case 'o' falls on a 17-degree axis.  The 23 / 17 numerology is reflective of similar numerical themes from [[The Illuminatus! Trilogy]].