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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. That refers to itself. The term was first used in print in 1979 in Douglas Hofstadter. S book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. In which Hofstadter invents the acronym GOD, meaning " G. Jinn", to help explain infinite series, and describes it as a recursive acronym. Other references followed,. However the concept was used as early as 1968 in John Brunner. S science fiction novel Stand On Zanzibar. Recursive acronyms typically form backwardly. Nitially")&...