linked list

British

noun

computing a list in which each item contains both data and a pointer to one or both neighbouring items, thus eliminating the need for the data items to be ordered in memory

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And so the “blockchain” – a linked list of all the previous blocks – serves as the full and complete record of who owns what on the network.

From The Guardian

Now that the election is over, and the great one is unleashing his abominable agenda, people are finally wondering what the hell is going on. http://www.rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/the-senate-republicans-as-inbred-cretins/ sacredh I put out a linked list of the various GOP diversity fails over the past two weeks and it gets yanked?

From Time

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