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nginx ("engine x") is an HTTP web server, reverse proxy, content cache, load balancer, TCP/UDP proxy server, and mail proxy server. […] [1]

I still pronounce it as "n-jinx" in my head.

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Title (website): "nginx". Publisher: NGINX. Accessed: 2025-02-26T23:25Z. URI: https://nginx.org/en/.
- §"nginx". ¶1.

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[-] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org -1 points 2 days ago

Ah, a VSauce Fan

[-] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago

Yes, but a fan of so much that I may have heard of that before Vsauce covered it. Vsauce is much good though, all of them have some credit

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

According to Wikipedia, that spelling goes back to 1855. I first heard about it in the '90s.

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