from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
Eris
/e'ris/, n.
The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and Things You Know
Not Of; her name was latinized to Discordia and she was worshiped by
that name in Rome. Not a very friendly deity in the Classical
original, she was reinvented as a more benign personification of
creative anarchy starting in 1959 by the adherents of {Discordianism}
and has since been a semi-serious subject of veneration in several
`fringe' cultures, including hackerdom. See {Discordianism}, {Church
of the SubGenius}.
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Eris
/e'ris/ The Greek goddess of Chaos, Discord, Confusion, and
Things You Know Not Of; her name was latinised to Discordia
and she was worshiped by that name in Rome. Not a very
friendly deity in the Classical original, she was reinvented
as a more benign personification of creative anarchy starting
in 1959 by the adherents of {Discordianism} and has since been
a semi-serious subject of veneration in several "fringe"
cultures, including hackerdom.
See {Church of the SubGenius}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1994-12-08)