LAN Times be based in San Mateo, California. The print publication was shuttered in 1999 and lantimes.com was redirected to networkcomputing.com LAN Times LAN Times was a print and online information journal dedicated to covering issues of technology and network computing, including local area network information. The publication was headquartered in San Mateo, California, and published print journals as well as online articles from 1988 to 1999. The publication featured an online help forum for network administrators, and published a variety of books on computer networking. It was published on a biweekly basis. It was published by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. until
Recursive acronym existing ordinary acronym is given a new explanation of what the letters stand for, or a name is turned into an acronym by giving the letters an explanation of what they stand for, in each case with the first letter standing recursively for the whole acronym. In computing, an early tradition in the hacker community (especially at MIT) was to choose acronyms and abbreviations that referred humorously to themselves or to other abbreviations. Perhaps the earliest example in this context, from 1960 the backronym "Mash Until No Good" was created to describe Mung, and a while after it was revised