What is the origin of the terminology 'FAQ'?

Origin of FAQs

FAQs became popular in the earliest days of the Internet. Wikipedia cites them as appearing in the early 1980s with the pre-cursors of the Internet. They became widespread with Internet USENET newsgroups.

It's newsgroup FAQs that inspired FAQ Farm (which started in 2002).

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