I was curious about the origins of the word foo/bar/foobar. So I looked it up on dictionary.com.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=foo
Very interesting.
Enjoy.
The meaning of "foo"
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Its got an amazing heritage. Its also used in math circles to denote an unknown value.
A friend when I was growing up used the term in a slang-like fashion, and it became the basis for a shell company he founded (foonet.net - no longer his), a gaming clan for his friends and I (foomafia.com), and more.
And to clarify, we used it linguistically for *anything*. Affirmations, verbs, nouns, insults, anything.
Foo is indeed one of the most versatile, odd, and widely known non-statically-defined language entities.
A friend when I was growing up used the term in a slang-like fashion, and it became the basis for a shell company he founded (foonet.net - no longer his), a gaming clan for his friends and I (foomafia.com), and more.
And to clarify, we used it linguistically for *anything*. Affirmations, verbs, nouns, insults, anything.
Foo is indeed one of the most versatile, odd, and widely known non-statically-defined language entities.
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The roots of Foobar
Is this a derivative of FUBAR? 
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