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Blinkenlights is a hacker's neologism for diagnostic lights on old mainframe computers, minicomputers, many early microcomputers, and modern network hardware. ==Etymology== The Jargon File provides the following etymology:〔(Blinkenlights ) entry in The Jargon File, version 4.4.6, 25 October 2003. ''jargon-file.org''. Retrieved 2015-01-17.〕 Although the sign might initially appear to be in German and uses an approximation of German grammar, it is composed largely of words that are either near-homonyms of English words or (in the cases of the longer words) actual English words that are rendered in a faux-German spelling. As such, the sign is generally comprehensible by many English speakers regardless of whether they have any fluency in German. Much of the humor in these signs was their intentionally incorrect language. Michael J. Preston recites the gem as being posted above photocopiers in offices as a warning not to mess with the machine in the first print reference from 1974. The sign is also reported to have been seen on an electron microscope at the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1950s. Such pseudo-German parodies were common in Allied machine shops during and following World War II, and an example photocopy is shown in the ''Jargon File''. The ''Jargon File'' also mentions that German hackers have developed their own versions of the blinkenlights poster, in fractured English:〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「blinkenlights」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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