People acquired power through persuasion, exerted both publicly and privately, public debate, force of will ( often via aggressive flames ), garnering authority and respect by spending much time and effort contributing to the community ( by being a maintainer of a FAQ, for example ; see also Kibo, etc.

The acronym FAQ was developed between 1982-1985 by Eugene Miya of NASA for the SPACE mailing list.

Over time, the accumulated FAQs across all USENET news groups sparked the creation of the "*. answers " moderated newsgroups such as comp. answers, misc. answers and sci. answers for crossposting and collecting FAQ across respective comp.

The term FAQ, and the idea behind it, has spread offline as well, to the point where paper instructions for products may contain a FAQ.

This site is translated in different European languages, has an extended FAQ and extra supporting tools for TerraCaching.

* What is the term used for the third derivative of position ?, description of jerk in the Usenet Physics FAQ.

* Sam's Laser FAQ A Practical Guide to Lasers for Experimenters and Hobbyists

* Adobe FAQ describing a future roadmap for RoboHelp and Framemaker

* comp. protocols. iso FAQ ( search for " PDU ")

* FAQ for comp. mail. pine

Microsoft's MSDN license agreement makes a specific exception for Microsoft Office, allowing the subscription holder to personally use it for business purposes without needing a separate license — but only with the " MSDN Premium Subscription " and even so only " directly related to the design, development and test and / or documentation of software projects " as stated in the MSDN licensing FAQ.

* Shorten FAQ ( note: If looking for software to play. shn files, you will probably be better served by the etree software page, as the Shorten FAQ has many broken and outdated links.

* contrasted with the more academic tending formal hierarchies, the " So You Want to Create an Alt Newsgroup " FAQ jokes that the name " alt " is an acronym for " anarchists, lunatics, and terrorists ", though this is actually just a humorous backronym.

Tarballs for stage1 and stage2 were distributed for some time after this, although the instructions for installing from these stages had been removed from the handbook and moved into the Gentoo FAQ.

The relationship with Sun came to an end ( an amicable one, according to the ibiblio FAQ ; the change in name was for a " vendor-neutral name that expressed what our project has evolved into over the years ") and the name was changed to MetaLab.

* FAQ for the use of Xboard and Winboard chess engines

* Mark V. Shaney also compiled an FAQ for the Plan 9 operating system

This may be for stylistic consistency with the related terminology FAQ and README.

The first person to post a weekly FAQ was Jef Poskanzer to the Usenet net. graphics / comp. graphics newsgroups.

comp. os. cpm Frequently Asked Questions ( FAQ ).

* — comp. compression's FAQ item 73, What is the theoretical compression limit?

* comp. sys. m68k FAQ

* Hitch-Hiker's Guide to Evolutionary Computation ( FAQ for comp. ai. genetic )

The first of these stories was " BLIT " ( Interzone, 1988 ); others include " What Happened at Cambridge IV " ( Digital Dreams, 1990 ); " comp. basilisk FAQ " ( Nature, 1999 ), and the Hugo-winning " Different Kinds of Darkness " ( F & SF, 2000 ).

* comp. basilisk FAQ

* " comp. sys. mac. comm FAQ "

* comp. windows. x. pex FAQ ( 28 March, 1994 )

comp. fonts FAQ: Macintosh Info.

* Question 3. 8 of the FAQ for comp. lang. c

* comp. sys. ibm. pc. rt FAQ ( as of 1994 ), archived at Giessen University

These statistics came from the comp. sys. m68k FAQ.

* comp. sys. m68k FAQ

The FAQ for the comp. windows. x Usenet newsgroup says: The Ardent Window Manager was for a while a hotbed for hackers and offered some features ( dynamic menus ) not found on more current window managers.

) ( comp. windows. x FAQ 2 / 7 )

* Reference in comp. sys. sinclair FAQ

* Anal Intercourse and Analingus – from alt. sex FAQ

* alt. conspiracy. usenet-cabal FAQ on the Cabal and TINC

* U. S. Navy Historical Center Bermuda Triangle FAQ

Jewish Usenet Newsgroup FAQ ) The Conservative movement makes a conscious effort to use historical sources to determine what kind of changes to Jewish tradition have occurred, how and why they occurred, and in what historical context.

* Casimir effect description from University of California, Riverside's version of the Usenet physics FAQ.

In particular, he has an extensive FAQ.

* Dextromethorphan FAQ at third-plateau. org

* Sci. Nonlinear FAQ 2. 0 ( Sept 2003 ) provides definitions, explanations and resources related to nonlinear science

* Eric Raymond's FAQ collection, mirrored on his personal site.

From the Usenet Physics FAQ.

" FAQ " is usually pronounced as an initialism rather than an acronym, but an acronym form does exist.

Since the acronym FAQ originated in textual media, its pronunciation varies ; " fack ", " faak ", " fax ", and " facts " are commonly heard.

While the name may be recent, the FAQ format itself is quite old.

The " FAQ " is an Internet textual tradition originating from the technical limitations of early mailing lists from NASA in the early 1980s.

The first FAQ developed over several pre-Web years starting from 1982 when storage was expensive.

Eugene Miya experimented with the first daily FAQ.

On Usenet, posting questions which are covered in a group's FAQ came to be considered poor netiquette, as it showed that the poster has not done the expected background reading before asking others to provide answers.