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FANG

                                             September 16, 2019

The FANG is an ancronym-- a true acronym for once,
not just a collection of random initials-- for the
current big four:

    Facebook
    Amazon
    Netflix
    Google

It's a truly beautiful piece of terminology,
and I use it often...

Though I might worry that it's too much a phenomena
of the present day.  If some of those companies stumble,
and there are others that join the IT corporate oligarchy     Consider the
in their place, then we'd suddenly need a new phrase,         early web jargon
and this term will seem oddly quaint.                         of the LAMP
                                                              stack, that
                                                              effectively wrote
                                                              Postgres out of
                                                              the story as a
                                                              database, but
                                                              weirdly allowed
                                                              switches to other
                                                              languages besides
                                                              perl, provided
                                                              they were began
                                                              with a "p":
                                                              python, php...








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