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{{short description|Online, searchable, encyclopedic dictionary of computing subjects}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2020}}

{{Infobox website

| name = Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC)

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| screenshot = foldoc-screenshot.png

| screenshot_size = 250px

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| commercial = No

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| type = [[Internet encyclopedia project]]

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| language = [[English language|English]]

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| registration = None

|type = [[Internet encyclopedia project]]

|language owner = [[EnglishDenis language|English]]Howe

| author = Denis Howe, many contributors

|registration = None

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| current_status = Active

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The '''Free On-line Dictionary of Computing''' ('''FOLDOC''') is an online, searchable, [[encyclopedic dictionary]] of [[computing]] subjects.<ref>[http{{cite web| url = https://foldoc.org/about.html| title = About FOLDOC]}}</ref>

==History==

FOLDOC was founded in 1985 by Denis Howe and was hosted by [[Imperial College London]]. In May 2015, the site was updated to state that it was "no longer supported by Imperial College Department of Computing". Howe has served as the [[editor-in-chief]] since the dictionary's inception, with visitors to the website able to make suggestions for additions or corrections to articles.<ref>{{cite web |first= Adam |last= Hodgkin |title= How Web-Based Reference Books Are Evolving Beyond the Dictionary |url= http://www.yourdictionary.com/about/news033.html |accessdateaccess-date= 2009-01-04 |url-status= dead |archiveurlarchive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120218212434/http://www.yourdictionary.com/about/news033.html |archivedatearchive-date= 2012-02-18 }}</ref>

==Open sourcing==

The dictionary incorporates the text of other free resources, such as the [[Jargon File]], as well as covering many other computing-related topics. Due to its availability under the [[GFDL|GNU Free Documentation License]], a [[copyleft]] license, it has in turn been incorporated in whole or part into other [[free content]] projects, such as [[Wikipedia]].

==Recognition==

* This site's brief 2001 review by a [[Ziff Davis]] publication begins "Despite this online dictionary’s pale user interface, it offers impressive functionality."<ref>{{cite magazine |publisher=Ziff Davis |date=May 17, May 2001 |url=https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/48274-free-online-dictionary-of-computing |title=Free Online Dictionary of Computing |website=ExtremeTech.com |access-date=26 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170926100755/https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/48274-free-online-dictionary-of-computing |archive-date=26 September 2017 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

|url=https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/48274-free-online-dictionary-of-computing

|title=Free Online Dictionary of Computing |website=ExtremeTech.com}}</ref>

* Oxford University Press knows of them,<ref>{{cite web

| url = http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095834413

| publisher = Oxford University Press |date=2013

| title = Oxford Reference}}</ref> and notes that it "is maintained by volunteers."

* A university tells its students that FOLDOC can be used to find information about "companies, projects, history, in fact any of the vocabulary you might expect to find in a computer dictionary."<ref>{{cite web

| url = http://cufts2.lib.sfu.ca/CRDB4/BKOC/resource/13612

| title = OC E-Resources - CUFTS - Sfu}}{{dead link|date=April 2019}}</ref>

==References==

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==External links==

* {{Official website|httphttps://foldoc.org/}}

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[[Category:Organisations associated with Imperial College London]]

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[[Category:Online dictionaries]]

[[Category:Technical communication]]

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