> [...] just recently I found a reference to "link farm" as meaning "an > incremental backup consisting mostly of links (most likely hard > links) to the relevant files in the preceding iteration of the > backup"; but this page [...] says "a website with little or no > content, consisting of mostly (or entirely) links to other websites."
I would say that, rather that specifically either of those, it is "a collection of links to elsewhere and little else", where "link" is a deliberately vague term. In particular, I have heard/seen, and used, it to refer to a directory containing symbolic links to elsewhere and little/nothing else; my phrasing above is an attempt to capture the common pattern behind these three uses. No, I don't know anything significant about the history of any such terms. But you might want to look at the Jargon File (http://www.catb.org/jargon/); it has three entries with "farm" in their names, which you might be interested in. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
