The back forty is besotted and the telegram is illegal. Fnord.

Want your very own fnorder? Download the Fnord program!

• Perl version: Unix gzip or PC zip file. Written by Jackie Hamilton. Updated with the latest and greatest message lists.

The following versions were written in other languages and contributed by various people. Please note these have not all been updated and may contain outdated message lists. If you feel industrious, you can download the perl version of the new messages and make the updates yourself. Or just give in and use the Perl version. :)

• C version (source + .exe file for PC).
• Another C version (.c file). Written by Tim Schiedel.
• Java version. Written by William Kida (neowulf@cyberzone.net), based on C code written by Ian Gordon (ian@slac.com).
• A C#/.NET version, available as source and executables. Written by Alistair Young (avatar@arkane-systems.net).
• Another C# version which requires v2 of the .NET runtime. Written by Christopher Williams.
• A WebSiphon version. Written by Ben Kimball. (More info on WebSiphon)
• A PHP version. Written by Joshua Turton.
• Another Java version. Written by Jim Lesko.
• A Palm OS version. Written by Andrew Otto.
• A Ruby version. Written by Paul McKibbin. (His fnord tutorial can be found here.)
• Another Ruby version. Written by Amim Moises.

You are permitted to download a copy for personal use, but do not upload it to FTP sites. If you are interested in licensing this product for commercial use, please contact licensing@sjgames.com.

This program is shareware. If you like it and decide to keep it, please send $10 to:

The fnorder is written in perl. It generates a "fnord" string by using random words and inserting them into various grammatical patterns. To run it, type "fnord.pl". This is meant to run on Unix, but should also work on any platform with a Perl interpreter.

You should change line 1 of fnord.pl to be the path to the actual location of perl on your machine.

To include a fnord in your web page, you should first have server-side includes enabled, and then use something like this:

<!--#exec cmd="fnord.pl"-->

Thanks, and enjoy the Fnorder!

Fnorder copyright 1997 by Steve Jackson Games. All Rights Reserved. Based on the original fnord.exe program from the Illuminati BBS.