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FAQ
Last modified: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 

Pronounced as separate letters, or as "fak," and short for frequently asked questions, a FAQ is an online document that poses a series of common questions and answers on a specific topic. FAQs originated in Usenet groups as a way to answer questions about the rules of the service. Today, there are FAQs on the Web for many topics, ranging from programming langauges to gardening tips.

Frequently, FAQs are formatted as help files or hypertext documents.

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Infinite Ink's Writing FAQs
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Contains a primer on Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) articles and lists.

The Internet FAQ Consortium
Contains links to FAQ related documents, author resources, maintainers discussions, book efforts, and hypertext and FTP archives.

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