bang (noun): the character “!”

bang path (noun):

[now historical] An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address specifying hops to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee, so called because each hop is signified by a bang sign. Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!barbox!me directs people to route their mail to machine bigsite (presumably a well-known location accessible to everybody) and from there through the machine foovax to the account of user me on barbox.

— The Jargon File

With that, welcome to bangpath.org! This is John Whitley’s personal website, which will gradually fill with useful tidbits on software development topics, other technical matters, and likely a software project or three.