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Just in case you're wondering, as I was ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.arpa

> While the name was originally the acronym for the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), the funding organization in the United States that developed one of the precursors of the Internet (ARPANET), it now stands for Address and Routing Parameter Area.

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That's a brilliant trick to depoliticise an essential part of the DNS.

In my town Waterloo Lutheran University became Wilfrid Laurier University. I thoroughly enjoy backronyms.

Not a backroynym, but King County, Washington retroactively changed which person named "King" is its namesake.

There was a school called "J. Edgar Hoover School", which changed so it was named after Herbert Hoover

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1994-06-26/news/940626022...

Shame that that article puts "cross-dressing" on par with "wire-tapping, Constitution-stomping, blackmailing, bully". We've come a long way, and still have a long way to go.

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