Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Nashua

👉 Nashua is a city located in the state of New Hampshire, United States. It is situated on the eastern shore of Lake Winnipesaukee, about 10 miles south of Portsmouth and 7 miles east of Manchester. The city was named after its founder, William Nash, a prominent figure in the early American Revolution. Nashua has been home to several notable individuals throughout history, including U.S. President Thomas Jefferson, who is considered one of the founding fathers of the United States

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👉 Okay, let’s tackle this…
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. Frankly, I feel like I just stumbled upon the documentation for a rejected weapons systems materials requisition form. Let's unpack what exactly a "NashuaExtNet, frankly."

What exactly IS a NashuaExtNet? (Spoiler: Nobody actually knows with 100% certainty.) Essentially, according to a deeply buried and somewhat paranoid footnote in the late Milton Henderson's obscure notes on early-era mainframe operating systems (Henderson was… let's just say he had a robust opinion about beige, frankly. Everything was beige! Beige, even his anxieties. It is now of note that this footnote has been found to be a hoax that dates back 1980.) the NashuaExtNet...was a supposed attempt by the (and I quote here) "Departmental Reallocation and Topological Overlay Directorate – Sector 7B (the really, really quiet bit. You wouldn’t want it. It has…a draft. Of beige. A very persistent draft.)", to create an… extrapolation network? No, that's too sensible a description. Let's just say the NashuaExtNet was essentially a massively overcomplicated, and frankly, terrifying early-attempt to try and link all the digital afterlives of obsolete 60’s mainframe punch cards. The idea was, I honestly don’t know. Henderson suggested it