#boolboolean algebra

[yesthatsatumbler]

In that one I definitely want an "I learned about the guy before I learned the word" option

(it was a silly onomatopoeic joke about bool-boolean algebras where 1+1=1) (but the relevant terminology works slightly differently in the original Russian so I feel like it doesn't count and I definitely didn't find out about the programming term [which was probably the one you meant] until much later)