Jargon Index
- Introduction
- Of Slang, Jargon, and Techspeak
- Revision History
- How Jargon Works
- Jargon Construction
- Verb Doubling
- Soundalike slang
- The `-P' convention
- Overgeneralization
- Spoken inarticulations
- Anthropomorphization
- Comparatives
- Hacker Writing Style
- Email Quotes and Inclusion Conventions
- Hacker Speech Style
- International Style
- Crackers, Phreaks, and Lamers
- How to Use the Lexicon
- Pronunciation Guide
- Other Lexicon Conventions
- Format For New Entries
- abbrev
- ABEND
- accumulator
- ACK
- Acme
- acolyte
- ad-hockery
- Ada
- adger
- admin
- ADVENT
- AFAIK
- AFJ
- AI
- AI-complete
- AI koans
- AIDS
- AIDX
- airplane rule
- aliasing bug
- all-elbows
- alpha particles
- alt
- alt bit
- altmode
- Aluminum Book
- amoeba
- amp off
- amper
- angle brackets
- angry fruit salad
- annoybot
- ANSI
- AOS
- app
- arena
- arg
- ARMM
- armor-plated
- asbestos
- asbestos cork award
- asbestos longjohns
- ASCII
-
- ASCII art
- ASCIIbetical order
- atomic
- attoparsec
- autobogotiphobia
- automagically
- avatar
- awk
- back door
- backbone cabal
- backbone site
- backgammon
- background
- backspace and overstrike
- backward combatability
- BAD
- Bad Thing
- bag on the side
- bagbiter
- bagbiting
- balloonian variable
- bamf
- banana label
- banana problem
- bandwidth
- bang
- bang on
- bang path
- banner
- bar
- bare metal
- barf
- barfmail
- barfulation
- barfulous
- barney
- baroque
- BASIC
- batch
- bathtub curve
- baud
- baud barf
- baz
- bboard
- BBS
- beam
- beanie key
- beep
- beige toaster
- bells and whistles
- bells, whistles, and gongs
- benchmark
- Berkeley Quality Software
- berklix
- Berzerkeley
- beta
- BFI
- bible
- BiCapitalization
- B1FF
- biff
- Big Gray Wall
- big iron
- Big Red Switch
- Big Room, the
- big win
- big-endian
- bignum
- bigot
- bit
- bit bang
- bit bashing
- bit bucket
- bit decay
- bit rot
- bit twiddling
- bit-paired keyboard
- bitblt
- BITNET
- bits
- bitty box
- bixie
- black art
- black hole
- black magic
- Black Screen of Death
- Black Thursday
- blammo
- blargh
- blast
- blat
- bletch
- bletcherous
- blink
- blinkenlights
- blit
- blitter
- blivet
- BLOB
- block
- block transfer computations
- Bloggs Family, the
- blow an EPROM
- blow away
- blow out
- blow past
- blow up
- BLT
- Blue Book
- blue box
- Blue Glue
- blue goo
- blue wire
- blurgle
- BNF
- boa
- board
- boat anchor
- bodysurf code
- BOF
- BOFH
- bogo-sort
- bogometer
- bogon
- bogon filter
- bogon flux
- bogosity
- bogotify
- bogue out
- bogus
- Bohr bug
- boink
- bomb
- bondage-and-discipline language
- bonk/oif
- book titles
- boot
- bottom feeder
- bottom-up implementation
- bounce
- bounce message
- boustrophedon
- box
- boxed comments
- boxen
- boxology
- bozotic
- BQS
- brain dump
- brain fart
- brain-damaged
- brain-dead
- braino
- branch to Fishkill
- bread crumbs
- break
- break-even point
- breath-of-life packet
- breedle
- bring X to its knees
- brittle
- broadcast storm
- brochureware
- broken
- broken arrow
- BrokenWindows
- broket
- Brooks's Law
- browser
- BRS
- brute force
- brute force and ignorance
- BSD
- BUAF
- BUAG
- bubble sort
- bucky bits
- buffer chuck
- buffer overflow
- bug
- bug-compatible
- bug-for-bug compatible
- bug-of-the-month club
- buglix
- bulletproof
- bum
- bump
- burble
- buried treasure
- burn-in period
- burst page
- busy-wait
- buzz
- BWQ
- by hand
- byte
- bytesexual
- bzzzt, wrong
- C
- C Programmer's Disease
- C++
- calculator
- Camel Book
- can
- can't happen
- candygrammar
- canonical
- card walloper
- careware
- cargo cult programming
- cascade
- case and paste
- casters-up mode
- casting the runes
- cat
- catatonic
- cd tilde
- CDA
- cdr
- chad
- chad box
- chain
- channel
- channel hopping
- channel op
- chanop
- char
- charityware
- chase pointers
- chawmp
- check
- chemist
- Chernobyl chicken
- Chernobyl packet
- chicken head
- chiclet keyboard
- chine nual
- Chinese Army technique
- choad
- choke
- chomp
- chomper
- CHOP
- Christmas tree
- Christmas tree packet
- chrome
- chug
- Church of the SubGenius
- Cinderella Book
- CI$
- Classic C
- clean
- CLM
- clobber
- clocks
- clone
- clone-and-hack coding
- clover key
- clustergeeking
- COBOL
- COBOL fingers
- code grinder
- Code of the Geeks
- code police
- codes
- codewalker
- coefficient of X
- cokebottle
- cold boot
- COME FROM
- comm mode
- command key
- comment out
- Commonwealth Hackish
- compact
- compiler jock
- compress
- Compu$erve
- computer confetti
- computer geek
- computron
- con
- condition out
- condom
- confuser
- connector conspiracy
- cons
- considered harmful
- console
- console jockey
- content-free
- control-C
- control-O
- control-Q
- control-S
- Conway's Law
- cookbook
- cooked mode
- cookie
- cookie bear
- cookie file
- cookie jar
- cookie monster
- copious free time
- copper
- copy protection
- copybroke
- copyleft
- copywronged
- core
- core cancer
- core dump
- core leak
- Core Wars
- corge
- cosmic rays
- cough and die
- cowboy
- CP/M
- CPU Wars
- crack root
- cracker
- cracking
- crank
- CrApTeX
- crash
- crash and burn
- crawling horror
- cray
- cray instability
- crayola
- crayola books
- crayon
- creationism
- creep
- creeping elegance
- creeping featurism
- creeping featuritis
- cretin
- cretinous
- crippleware
- critical mass
- crlf
- crock
- cross-post
- crudware
- cruft
- cruft together
- cruftsmanship
- crufty
- crumb
- crunch
- cruncha cruncha cruncha
- cryppie
- CTSS
- CTY
- cube
- cubing
- cursor dipped in X
- cuspy
- cut a tape
- cybercrud
- cyberpunk
- cyberspace
- cycle
- cycle crunch
- cycle drought
- cycle of reincarnation
- cycle server
- cypherpunk
- D. C. Power Lab
- daemon
- daemon book
- dahmum
- dangling pointer
- dark-side hacker
- Datamation
- DAU
- day mode
- dd
- DDT
- de-rezz
- dead
- dead code
- dead link
- DEADBEEF
- deadlock
- deadly embrace
- death code
- Death Square
- Death Star
- DEC
- dec
- DEC Wars
- decay
- DEChead
- deckle
- DED
- deep hack mode
- deep magic
- deep space
- defenestration
- defined as
- dehose
- delint
- delta
- demented
- demigod
- demo
- demo mode
- demon
- demon dialer
- depeditate
- deprecated
- derf
- deserves to lose
- desk check
- despew
- Devil Book
- dickless workstation
- dictionary flame
- diddle
- die
- die horribly
- diff
- digit
- dike
- Dilbert
- ding
- dink
- dinosaur
- dinosaur pen
- dinosaurs mating
- dirtball
- dirty power
- disclaimer
- Discordianism
- disk farm
- display hack
- Dissociated Press
- distribution
- disusered
- do protocol
- doc
- documentation
- dodgy
- dogcow
- dogpile
- dogwash
- domainist
- Don't do that, then!
- dongle
- dongle-disk
- donuts
- doorstop
- dot file
- double bucky
- double DECkers
- doubled sig
- down
- download
- DP
- DPB
- DPer
- dragon
- Dragon Book
- drain
- dread high-bit disease
- DRECNET
- driver
- droid
- drool-proof paper
- drop on the floor
- drop-ins
- drop-outs
- drugged
- drum
- drunk mouse syndrome
- Duff's device
- dumb terminal
- dumbass attack
- dumbed down
- dump
- dumpster diving
- dup killer
- dup loop
- dusty deck
- DWIM
- dynner
- earthquake
- Easter egg
- Easter egging
- eat flaming death
- EBCDIC
- echo
- eighty-column mind
- El Camino Bignum
- elder days
- elegant
- elephantine
- elevator controller
- elite
- ELIZA effect
- elvish
- EMACS
- email
- emoticon
- empire
- engine
- English
- enhancement
- ENQ
- EOF
- EOL
- EOU
- epoch
- epsilon
- epsilon squared
- era, the
- Eric Conspiracy
- Eris
- erotics
- error 33
- evil
- evil and rude
- exa-
- examining the entrails
- EXCH
- excl
- EXE
- exec
- exercise, left as an
- Exon
- external memory
- eye candy
- eyeball search
- face time
- factor
- fall over
- fall through
- fan
- fandango on core
- FAQ
- FAQ list
- FAQL
- faradize
- farkled
- farming
- fascist
- fat electrons
- faulty
- fd leak
- fear and loathing
- feature
- feature creature
- feature key
- feature shock
- featurectomy
- feep
- feeper
- feeping creature
- feeping creaturism
- feetch feetch
- fence
- fencepost error
- fepped out
- FidoNet
- field circus
- field servoid
- Fight-o-net
- File Attach
- File Request
- file signature
- filk
- film at 11
- filter
- Finagle's Law
- fine
- finger
- finger trouble
- finger-pointing syndrome
- finn
- firebottle
- firefighting
- firehose syndrome
- firewall code
- firewall machine
- fireworks mode
- firmy
- fish
- FISH queue
- FITNR
- fix
- FIXME
- flag
- flag day
- flaky
- flamage
- flame
- flame bait
- flame on
- flame war
- flamer
- flap
- flarp
- flat
- flat-ASCII
- flat-file
- flatten
- flavor
- flavorful
- flippy
- flood
- flowchart
- flower key
- flush
- flypage
- Flyspeck 3
- flytrap
- FM
- fnord
- FOAF
- FOD
- fold case
- followup
- fontology
- foo
- foobar
- fool
- fool file, the
- Foonly
- footprint
- for free
- for the rest of us
- for values of
- fora
- foreground
- fork bomb
- forked
- Fortrash
- fortune cookie
- forum
- fossil
- four-color glossies
- fragile
- fred
- frednet
- freeware
- freeze
- fried
- frink
- friode
- fritterware
- frob
- frobnicate
- frobnitz
- frog
- frogging
- front end
- frotz
- frotzed
- frowney
- FRS
- fry
- FSF
- FTP
- FUBAR
- fuck me harder
- FUD
- FUD wars
- fudge
- fudge factor
- fuel up
- Full Monty, the
- fum
- funky
- funny money
- furrfu
- fuzzball
- G
- g-file
- gabriel
- gag
- gang bang
- garbage collect
- garply
- gas
- gaseous
- gawble
- GC
- GCOS
- GECOS
- gedanken
- geef
- geek code
- geek out
- gen
- gender mender
- General Public Virus
- generate
- Genius From Mars Technique
- gensym
- Get a life!
- Get a real computer!
- GFR
- GIFs at 11
- gig
- giga-
- GIGO
- gilley
- gillion
- GIPS
- glark
- glass
- glass tty
- glassfet
- glitch
- glob
- glork
- glue
- gnarly
- GNU
- GNUMACS
- go flatline
- go root
- go-faster stripes
- gobble
- Godwin's Law
- Godzillagram
- golden
- golf-ball printer
- gonk
- gonkulator
- gonzo
- Good Thing
- gopher
- gopher hole
- gorets
- gorilla arm
- gorp
- GOSMACS
- Gosperism
- gotcha
- GPL
- GPV
- grault
- gray goo
- Great Renaming
- Great Runes
- Great Worm, the
- great-wall
- Green Book
- green bytes
- green card
- green lightning
- green machine
- Green's Theorem
- grep
- grilf
- grind
- grind crank
- gripenet
- gritch
- grok
- gronk
- gronk out
- gronked
- grovel
- grunge
- gubbish
- guiltware
- gumby
- gun
- gunch
- gurfle
- guru
- guru meditation
- gweep
- h
- ha ha only serious
- hack
- hack attack
- hack mode
- hack on
- hack together
- hack up
- hack value
- hacked off
- hacked up
- hacker
- hacker ethic
- hacker humor
- hacking run
- Hacking X for Y
- Hackintosh
- hackish
- hackishness
- hackitude
- hair
- hairball
- hairy
- HAKMEM
- hakspek
- hammer
- hamster
- hand cruft
- hand-hacking
- hand-roll
- handle
- handshaking
- handwave
- hang
- Hanlon's Razor
- happily
- haque
- hard boot
- hardcoded
- hardwarily
- hardwired
- has the X nature
- hash bucket
- hash collision
- hat
- HCF
- heads down
- heartbeat
- heatseeker
- heavy metal
- heavy wizardry
- heavyweight
- heisenbug
- Helen Keller mode
- hello, sailor!
- hello, wall!
- hello, world
- hex
- hexadecimal
- hexit
- HHOK
- HHOS
- hidden flag
- high bit
- high moby
- highly
- hing
- hired gun
- hirsute
- HLL
- hoarding
- hobbit
- hog
- hole
- hollised
- holy wars
- home box
- home machine
- home page
- hook
- hop
- hose
- hosed
- hot chat
- hot spot
- hotlink
- house wizard
- HP-SUX
- huff
- humma
- hung
- hungry puppy
- hungus
- hyperspace
- hysterical reasons
- I didn't change anything!
- I see no X here.
- IBM
- IBM discount
- ICBM address
- ice
- idempotent
- If you want X, you know where to find it.
- ifdef out
- ill-behaved
- IMHO
- Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!
- in the extreme
- inc
- incantation
- include
- include war
- indent style
- index
- infant mortality
- infinite
- infinite loop
- Infinite-Monkey Theorem
- infinity
- inflate
- Infocom
- initgame
- insanely great
- INTERCAL
- interesting
- Internet
- Internet address
- interrupt
- interrupt list, the
- interrupts locked out
- IRC
- iron
- Iron Age
- iron box
- ironmonger
- ISP
- ITS
- IWBNI
- IYFEG
- J. Random
- J. Random Hacker
- jack in
- jaggies
- JCL
- JEDR
- JFCL
- jiffy
- job security
- jock
- joe code
- jolix
- JR[LN]
- JRST
- juggling eggs
- jump off into never-never land
- jupiter
- K
- K&R
- k-
- kahuna
- kamikaze packet
- kangaroo code
- ken
- kgbvax
- KIBO
- kiboze
- kibozo
- kick
- kill file
- killer app
- killer micro
- killer poke
- kilo-
- KIPS
- KISS Principle
- kit
- klone
- kludge
- kluge
- kluge around
- kluge up
- Knights of the Lambda Calculus
- Knuth
- kremvax
- kyrka
- lace card
- lamer
- language lawyer
- languages of choice
- larval stage
- lase
- laser chicken
- Lasherism
- laundromat
- LDB
- leaf site
- leak
- leaky heap
- leapfrog attack
- leech
- legal
- legalese
- LER
- LERP
- let the smoke out
- letterbomb
- lexer
- lexiphage
- life
- Life is hard
- light pipe
- lightweight
- like kicking dead whales down the beach
- like nailing jelly to a tree
- line 666
- line eater, the
- line noise
- line starve
- linearithmic
- link farm
- link-dead
- lint
- Linux
- lion food
- Lions Book
- LISP
- list-bomb
- literature, the
- lithium lick
- little-endian
- live
- live data
- Live Free Or Die!
- livelock
- liveware
- lobotomy
- locals, the
- locked and loaded
- locked up
- logic bomb
- logical
- loop through
- loose bytes
- lord high fixer
- lose
- lose lose
- loser
- losing
- loss
- lossage
- lost in the noise
- lost in the underflow
- lots of MIPS but no I/O
- low-bandwidth
- LPT
- Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology
- lunatic fringe
- lurker
- luser
- M
- macdink
- machinable
- machoflops
- Macintoy
- Macintrash
- macro
- macro-
- macrology
- macrotape
- maggotbox
- magic
- magic cookie
- magic number
- magic smoke
- mail storm
- mailbomb
- mailing list
- main loop
- mainframe
- management
- mandelbug
- manged
- mangle
- mangler
- manularity
- marbles
- marginal
- Marginal Hacks
- marginally
- marketroid
- Mars
- martian
- massage
- math-out
- Matrix
- maximum Maytag mode
- Mbogo, Dr. Fred
- meatware
- meeces
- meg
- mega-
- megapenny
- MEGO
- meltdown, network
- meme
- meme plague
- memetics
- memory farts
- memory leak
- memory smash
- menuitis
- mess-dos
- meta
- meta bit
- metasyntactic variable
- MFTL
- mickey
- mickey mouse program
- micro-
- MicroDroid
- microfloppies
- microfortnight
- microLenat
- microReid
- Microsloth Windows
- microtape
- middle-endian
- milliLampson
- minifloppies
- MIPS
- misbug
- misfeature
- Missed'em-five
- missile address
- miswart
- moby
- mockingbird
- mod
- mode
- mode bit
- modulo
- molly-guard
- Mongolian Hordes technique
- monkey up
- monkey, scratch
- monstrosity
- monty
- Moof
- Moore's Law
- moose call
- moria
- MOTAS
- MOTOS
- MOTSS
- mouse ahead
- mouse around
- mouse belt
- mouse droppings
- mouse elbow
- mouso
- MS-DOS
- mu
- MUD
- muddie
- mudhead
- multician
- Multics
- multitask
- mumblage
- mumble
- munch
- munching
- munching squares
- munchkin
- mundane
- mung
- munge
- Murphy's Law
- music
- mutter
- N
- nadger
- nagware
- nailed to the wall
- nailing jelly
- naive
- naive user
- NAK
- nano
- nano-
- nanoacre
- nanobot
- nanocomputer
- nanofortnight
- nanotechnology
- nasal demons
- nastygram
- Nathan Hale
- nature
- neat hack
- neats vs. scruffies
- neep-neep
- neophilia
- nerd
- net.-
- net.god
- net.personality
- net.police
- NetBOLLIX
- netburp
- netdead
- nethack
- netiquette
- netlag
- netnews
- netrock
- netsplit
- netter
- network address
- network meltdown
- network, the
- New Jersey
- New Testament
- newbie
- newgroup wars
- newline
- NeWS
- news
- newsfroup
- newsgroup
- nick
- nickle
- night mode
- Nightmare File System
- NIL
- Ninety-Ninety Rule
- NMI
- no-op
- noddy
- node
- NOMEX underwear
- Nominal Semidestructor
- non-optimal solution
- nonlinear
- nontrivial
- not ready for prime time
- notwork
- NP-
- nroff
- NSA line eater
- NSP
- nude
- nuke
- number-crunching
- numbers
- NUXI problem
- nybble
- nyetwork
- Ob-
- Obfuscated C Contest
- obi-wan error
- Objectionable-C
- obscure
- octal forty
- off the trolley
- off-by-one error
- offline
- ogg
- old fart
- Old Testament
- one-banana problem
- one-line fix
- one-liner wars
- ooblick
- op
- open
- Open DeathTrap
- open switch
- operating system
- optical diff
- optical grep
- optimism
- Orange Book
- oriental food
- orphan
- orphaned i-node
- orthogonal
- OS
- OS/2
- OSU
- OTOH
- out-of-band
- overflow bit
- overflow pdl
- overrun
- overrun screw
- P-mail
- P.O.D.
- padded cell
- page in
- page out
- pain in the net
- Pangloss parity
- paper-net
- param
- PARC
- parent message
- parity errors
- Parkinson's Law of Data
- parm
- parse
- Pascal
- pastie
- patch
- patch space
- path
- pathological
- payware
- PBD
- PC-ism
- PD
- PDL
- pdl
- PDP-10
- PDP-20
- peek
- pencil and paper
- peon
- percent-S
- perf
- perfect programmer syndrome
- Perl
- person of no account
- pessimal
- pessimizing compiler
- peta-
- PETSCII
- phage
- phase
- phase of the moon
- phase-wrapping
- phreaker
- phreaking
- pico-
- pig, run like a
- pilot error
- ping
- Pink-Shirt Book
- PIP
- pistol
- pixel sort
- pizza box
- pizza, ANSI standard
- plaid screen
- plain-ASCII
- plan file
- platinum-iridium
- playpen
- playte
- plingnet
- plokta
- plonk
- plugh
- plumbing
- PM
- pnambic
- pod
- point-and-drool interface
- poke
- poll
- polygon pusher
- POM
- pop
- POPJ
- poser
- post
- postcardware
- posting
- postmaster
- PostScript
- pound on
- power cycle
- power hit
- PPN
- precedence lossage
- prepend
- prestidigitization
- pretty pictures
- prettyprint
- pretzel key
- priesthood
- prime time
- printing discussion
- priority interrupt
- profile
- progasm
- proglet
- program
- Programmer's Cheer
- programming
- programming fluid
- propeller head
- propeller key
- proprietary
- protocol
- provocative maintenance
- prowler
- pseudo
- pseudoprime
- pseudosuit
- psychedelicware
- psyton
- pubic directory
- puff
- punched card
- punt
- Purple Book
- purple wire
- push
- quad
- quadruple bucky
- quantifiers
- quantum bogodynamics
- quarter
- ques
- quick-and-dirty
- quine
- quote chapter and verse
- quotient
- quux
- qux
- QWERTY
- rabbit job
- rain dance
- rainbow series
- random
- random numbers
- randomness
- rape
- rare mode
- raster blaster
- raster burn
- rat belt
- rat dance
- rave
- rave on!
- ravs
- raw mode
- rc file
- RE
- read-only user
- README file
- real
- real estate
- real hack
- real operating system
- Real Programmer
- Real Soon Now
- real time
- real user
- Real World
- reality check
- reaper
- rectangle slinger
- recursion
- recursive acronym
- Red Book
- red wire
- regexp
- register dancing
- reincarnation, cycle of
- reinvent the wheel
- religion of CHI
- religious issues
- replicator
- reply
- restriction
- retcon
- RETI
- retrocomputing
- return from the dead
- RFC
- RFE
- rib site
- rice box
- Right Thing
- RL
- roach
- robot
- robust
- rococo
- rogue
- room-temperature IQ
- root
- root mode
- rot13
- rotary debugger
- round tape
- RSN
- RTBM
- RTFAQ
- RTFB
- RTFM
- RTFS
- RTI
- RTM
- RTS
- rude
- runes
- runic
- rusty iron
- rusty memory
- rusty wire
- S/N ratio
- sacred
- saga
- sagan
- SAIL
- salescritter
- salt
- salt mines
- salt substrate
- same-day service
- samizdat
- samurai
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- sanity check
- Saturday-night special
- say
- scag
- scanno
- schroedinbug
- science-fiction fandom
- scram switch
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- scratch monkey
- scream and die
- screaming tty
- screw
- screwage
- scribble
- scrog
- scrool
- scrozzle
- scruffies
- SCSI
- ScumOS
- search-and-destroy mode
- second-system effect
- secondary damage
- security through obscurity
- SED
- segfault
- seggie
- segment
- segmentation fault
- segv
- self-reference
- selvage
- semi
- semi-infinite
- senior bit
- server
- SEX
- sex changer
- shambolic link
- shar file
- sharchive
- Share and enjoy!
- shareware
- shelfware
- shell
- shell out
- shift left (or right) logical
- shim
- shitogram
- short card
- shotgun debugging
- shovelware
- showstopper
- shriek
- Shub-Internet
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- SIG
- sig block
- sig quote
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- signal-to-noise ratio
- silicon
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- silo
- Silver Book
- since time T equals minus infinity
- sitename
- skrog
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- slack
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- slop
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- slurp
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- smiley
- smoke
- smoke and mirrors
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- smoking clover
- SMOP
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- SNAFU principle
- snail
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- snap
- snarf
- snarf & barf
- snarf down
- snark
- sneaker
- sneakernet
- sniff
- snivitz
- SO
- social engineering
- social science number
- sodium substrate
- soft boot
- softcopy
- software bloat
- software hoarding
- software laser
- software rot
- softwarily
- softy
- some random X
- sorcerer's apprentice mode
- SOS
- source of all good bits
- space-cadet keyboard
- spaceship operator
- SPACEWAR
- spaghetti code
- spaghetti inheritance
- spam
- special-case
- speedometer
- spell
- spelling flame
- spiffy
- spike
- spin
- spl
- splash screen
- splat
- spod
- spoiler
- sponge
- spool
- spool file
- square tape
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- stack puke
- stale pointer bug
- star out
- state
- stealth manager
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- stiffy
- stir-fried random
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- Stone Age
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- strided
- stroke
- strudel
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- studly
- studlycaps
- stunning
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- Stupids
- Sturgeon's Law
- sucking mud
- sufficiently small
- suit
- suitable win
- suitably small
- sun lounge
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- sunspots
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- superloser
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- superuser
- support
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- swap
- swap space
- swapped in
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- syntactic salt
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- sys-frog
- sysadmin
- sysape
- sysop
- system
- systems jock
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- SysVile
- T
- tail recursion
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- tall card
- tanked
- TANSTAAFL
- tar and feather
- taste
- tayste
- TCB
- TCP/IP
- tea, ISO standard cup of
- TechRef
- TECO
- tee
- teledildonics
- Telerat
- TELNET
- ten-finger interface
- tense
- tentacle
- tenured graduate student
- tera-
- teraflop club
- terminak
- terminal brain death
- terminal illness
- terminal junkie
- terpri
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- TeX
- text
- thanks in advance
- That's not a bug, that's a feature!
- the X that can be Y is not the true X
- theology
- theory
- thinko
- This can't happen
- This time, for sure!
- thrash
- thread
- three-finger salute
- thud
- thumb
- thunk
- tick
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- tickle a bug
- tiger team
- time bomb
- time sink
- time T
- times-or-divided-by
- Tinkerbell program
- tip of the ice-cube
- tired iron
- tits on a keyboard
- TLA
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- TMRCie
- to a first approximation
- to a zeroth approximation
- toad
- toast
- toaster
- toeprint
- toggle
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- toolsmith
- topic drift
- topic group
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- tourist
- tourist information
- touristic
- toy
- toy language
- toy problem
- toy program
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- trap
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- treeware
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- trivial
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- troglodyte
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- tron
- true-hacker
- tty
- tube
- tube time
- tunafish
- tune
- turbo nerd
- Turing tar-pit
- turist
- tweak
- tweeter
- TWENEX
- twiddle
- twilight zone
- twink
- twirling baton
- two pi
- two-to-the-N
- twonkie
- u-
- UBD
- UN*X
- undefined external reference
- under the hood
- undocumented feature
- uninteresting
- Unix
- Unix brain damage
- Unix conspiracy
- Unix weenie
- unixism
- unswizzle
- unwind the stack
- unwind-protect
- up
- upload
- upthread
- urchin
- URL
- Usenet
- user
- user-friendly
- user-obsequious
- USG Unix
- UTSL
- UUCPNET
- V7
- vadding
- vanilla
- vannevar
- vaporware
- var
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- VAXectomy
- VAXen
- vaxherd
- vaxism
- vaxocentrism
- vdiff
- veeblefester
- ventilator card
- Venus flytrap
- verbage
- verbiage
- Version 7
- vgrep
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- videotex
- virgin
- virtual
- virtual Friday
- virtual reality
- virtual shredder
- virus
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- voodoo programming
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- walk off the end of
- walking drives
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- wall time
- wallpaper
- wango
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- wart
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- wedged
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- weeble
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- well-behaved
- well-connected
- wetware
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- wheel bit
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- whizzy
- wibble
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- widget
- wiggles
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- win
- win big
- win win
- Winchester
- windoid
- window shopping
- Windoze
- winged comments
- winkey
- winnage
- winner
- winnitude
- wired
- wirehead
- wirewater
- wish list
- within delta of
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- wizard
- Wizard Book
- wizard mode
- wizardly
- wok-on-the-wall
- womb box
- WOMBAT
- wonky
- woofer
- workaround
- working as designed
- worm
- wormhole
- wound around the axle
- wrap around
- write-only code
- write-only language
- write-only memory
- Wrong Thing
- wugga wugga
- wumpus
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- WYSIWYG
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- XEROX PARC
- XOFF
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- xor
- xref
- XXX
- xyzzy
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- YAFIYGI
- YAUN
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- yellow wire
- Yet Another
- YKYBHTLW
- YMMV
- You are not expected to understand this
- You know you've been hacking too long when...
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- Yow!
- yoyo mode
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- zap
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- Zero-One-Infinity Rule
- zeroth
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