120 reset 2 (infix) accumulator ACK adger ad-hockery ADVENT AIDS AI koans aliasing bug ALT alt bit Aluminum Book amoeba amp off angle brackets AOS app arc arc wars arena arg armor-plated asbestos cork award asbestos longjohns ASCII asymptotic autobogotiphobia automagically awk backbone cabal back door background Bad Thing bagbiter bamf bandwidth bang bang path bar bare metal barf barfulation barfulous baroque BartleMUD baud barf baz bboard BBS beam beep @Begin \Begin bells and whistles benchmark berklix berserking Berzerkely beta BFI bible biff big-endian Big Grey Wall big iron bignum big red switch bit bit bang bit bashing bitblt bit bucket bit decay bit-paired keyboard bit rot bits bitty box bixie black art black box black hole blast blazer bletch bletcherous blinkenlights blit block block transfer computations blow away blow out blow past blow up BLT Blue Book Blue Glue blue goo BNF boa boat anchor bogometer bogon bogon filter bogosity bogo-sort bogotify bogue out bogus Bohr bug boink bomb bondage-and-discipline language bonk/oif boot bottleneck bounce bounce message box boxen brain-damaged brain-dead brain dump braino branch to Fishkill brand brand brand break breakage breath of life packet brittle broadcast storm broken broket brute force brute force and ignorance BSD bucky bits buffer overflow bug bug-for-bug compatible bulletproof bum bump burble busy-wait buzz BWQ bytesexual C calculator can canonical card walloper case and paste casters-up mode casting the runes cat catatonia cdr chad chad box chain char chase pointers chemist Chernobyl packet choke chomp chomper Christmas tree Christmas tree packet chrome Church of the Sub-Genius Cinderella book Classic C clean CLM clobber clocks clone close clustergeeking COBOL COBOL fingers code grinder code police codewalker coefficient of x cokebottle COME FROM comment out com[m] mode Commonwealth hackish compress computer geek computron condom connector conspiracy cons considered harmful console jockey content-free Conway's Law cookie cookie monster copybroke copyleft copywronged core core dump core leak Core Wars corge cosmic rays cowboy CP/M CPU Wars cracker crank crash crash and burn crawling horror cray cray instability crayola crayon creeping elegance creeping featuritis cretin cretinous crippleware crlf crock cross-post crudware cruft cruftsmanship cruft together crufty crumb crunch cruncha cruncha cruncha cryppie CTSS CTY cubing cuspy cut a tape cybercrud cyberpunk cyberspace cycle cycle crunch cycle drought cycle server daemon dangling pointer Datamation day mode dd DDT dead code deadlock deadly embrace death star deckle DEC Wars deep magic deep space defenestration defined as dehose delint delta demented demigod demo mode demon deprecated de-rezz, derez /dev/null devo dickless workstation diddle diffs digit dike ding dink dinosaur dinosaur pen dirty power Discordianism display hack doco dodgy dogwash dongle dongle-disk Don't do that, then! donuts doorstop do protocol dot file double bucky doubled sig down download DP DPB DPer dragon Dragon Book drain dread high bit disease DRECNET drool-proof paper drop-ins drop on the floor drop-outs drugged drunk mouse syndrome dumbass attack dup killer dup loop dusty deck DWIM dynner earthquake Easter egg Easter egging eat flaming death EBCDIC echo eighty-column mind El Camino Bignum elegant elephantine EMACS email emoticon empire English ENQ EOF EOU epoch, the epsilon epsilon squared era, the Eric Conspiracy Eris erotics essentials evil exa- examining the entrails EXCH excl EXE exec exercise, left as an fab fall over fall through fandango on core FAQ list farming fascist faulty fd leak fear and loathing feature feature creature featurectomy feep feeper feeping creaturitis feetch feetch fencepost error Fidonet field circus field servoid Fight-o-net File Attach File Request filk film at 11 filter fine finger finger-pointing syndrome firebottle firefighting firewall machine fireworks mode firmware fish flag flag day flaky flamage flame flame bait flamer flame war flap flat-ASCII flat-file flatten flavor flavorful flippy flush flytrap FOAF FOD followup foo foobar fool footprint foreground forked for the rest of us fortune cookie fossil fred frednet freeware FReq fried frob frobnicate frobnitz frog front end frotz frotzed fry FTP fuck me harder fudge fudge factor FUD wars fuel up fuggly funky funny money fuzz fuzzball gabriel gag gang bang garbage collect garply gas GC GCOS GECOS gedanken geek out gen gender mender General Public Virus generate Get a life! 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Random Hacker JR[LN] K kahuna ken kgbvax killer micro killer poke kill file kilo- kluge Knights of the Lambda Calculus Knuth K&R kremvax lace card language lawyer languages of choice larval stage lase laser chicken LDB leak leaky heap legal legalese LERP lexer life like kicking dead whales down the beach line eater, the line starve link-dead link farm lint lion food LISP literature, the little-endian Live Free Or Die! livelock liveware locked up logical logic bomb loop through lord high fixer lose lose lose loser losing loss lossage lost in the underflow LPT lunatic fringe lurker luser macdink machoflops Macintrash macro macro- macrology macrotape magic magic cookie magic number magic smoke mailing list management manged mangle mango marginal marketroid martian massage Matrix Mbogo, Dr. Fred meatware meg mega- megapenny MEGO meltdown, network meme meme plague memetics memory leak menuitis mess-dos meta meta bit micro- microfloppies microtape middle-endian millilampson MIPS misbug misfeature Missed'em-five moby mod mode modulo monkey up monstrosity Moore's Law moria MOTAS MOTOS MOTSS mount mouse ahead mouse around mouse elbow mousoh MS-DOS MUD mudhead multician Multics mumblage mumble munch munching squares munchkin mundane mung music mutter N nailed to the wall NAK nano- nanoacre nanobot nanocomputer nanotechnology nastygram neep-neep neophilia net.* net.god nethack netiquette net.police network address network, the newbie newgrp wars New Jersey newline newsfroup newsgroup New Testament nickle Nightmare File System night mode NIL NMI noddy nonlinear non-optimal solution nontrivial no-op NP- nuke null device numbers NUXI problem nybble Ob Obfuscated C Contest obscure octal forty off-by-one error offline off the trolley old fart Old Testament ONE BELL SYSTEM (IT WORKS) one-liner wars ooblick open open switch operating system Orange Book Oriental food orphan orthogonal OS OS/2 overrun screw page in page out panic paper-net param parent message parity errors parse @-party patch pathological payware PBD PC-ism PD pdl PDP-10 peek/poke percent-s perf Perl pessimal pessimizing compiler peta- phase phase of the moon pico- pig, run like a ping Pink-Shirt Book PIP pipeline pizza, ANSI standard pizza box plain-ASCII playpen playte plingnet plonk plugh plumbing PM pod P.O.D. poll polygon pusher POM pop posing post posting PPN precedence lossage prepend pretty pictures prettyprint prime time priority interrupt profile Programmer's Cheer propeller head proprietary protocol prowler pseudo pseudoprime pseudosuit psychedelicware punt Purple Book push quadruple bucky quantum bogodynamics ques quux qux QWERTY rain dance random randomness random numbers rape rare raster blaster raster burn rave rave on! ravs README file read-only user real operating system real programmer Real Soon Now real time real user Real World reaper rectangle slinger recursion recursive acronyms Red Book regexp reincarnation, cycle of religious issues replicator reply retcon retrocomputing RFC RFE rice box Right Thing, The RL roach robust rogue room-temperature IQ root rot13 rotary debugger RSN RTFM RTI rude runes runic sacred sadistics saga sagan SAIL salescritter salt mines same-day-service sandbender sanity check say science-fiction fandom scratch scratch monkey screw screwage scribble scrog scrozzle search-and-destroy mode second-system effect segfault seggie segment segmentation fault (or violation) segv self-reference selvage semi server SEX shareware shelfware shell shell out shift left (or right) logical shitogram shriek sig block signal to noise ratio sig quote silicon silicon foundry silly walk silo Silver Book since time T equals minus infinity sitename skulker slap on the side sleep slim slop slopsucker sluggy slurp smart smart terminal smash case smash the stack smiley smoke test smoking clover SMOP snail-mail snarf snarf & barf snark sneakernet sniff snivitz 'Snooze s/n ratio S.O. softcopy software bloat software rot softwarily some random X sorcerer's apprentice mode SOS space-cadet keyboard SPACEWAR spaghetti code spaghetti inheritance spam spell spiffy spin spin-lock spl splat spooge spool stack stack puke stale pointer bug state stiffy stir-fried random stomp on Stone Age stoppage stubroutine stunning subshell sucking mud suit sunspots sun-stools SUPDUP superprogrammer Suzie COBOL swab swapped swap space swizzle sync syntactic sugar sys-frog sysop system system mangler T tail recursion talk mode tanked tar and feather taste TCB TECO tee Telerat TELNET ten finger interface tense tenured graduate student tera- teraflop club terminak terminal brain death terminal illness terminal junkie terpri TeX thanks in advance theology theory thinko This time, for sure! 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