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• ot13: /rot ther'teen/ [USENET: from `rotate alphabet 13 places'] n.
  v. The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that replaces each English letter with the one 13 places forward or back along the alphabet, so that "The butler did it!...
• poiler n. [Usenet] 1. A remark which reveals important plot elements from books or movie
  hus denying the reader (of the article) the proper suspense when reading the book or watching the movie....
• poiler: [USENET] n. 1. A remark which reveals important plot elements from books or movie
  hus denying the reader (of the article) the proper suspense when reading the book or watching the movie....
• kremvax /krem-vaks/ n. [from the then large number of Usenet VAXen with names of the form foovax] Originally
  a fictitious Usenet site at the Kremlin, announced on April 1, 1984 in a posting ostensibly originated there by Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko....
• oftware rot n. Term used to describe the tendency of software that has not been used in a while to lose
  uch failure may be semi-humorously ascribed to bit rot....
• alk mode n. A feature supported by Unix, ITS, and some other OSes that allows two or more logged-in users to set up a real-time on-line conversation.
  It combines the immediacy of talking with all the precision (and verbosity) that written language entails....
• ASCII /as'kee/ n. [originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers.
  The standard version uses 7 bits for each character, whereas most earlier codes (including early drafts of of ASCII prior to June 1961) used fewer....
• pam vt.,vi.,n. [from "Monty Python's Flying Circus"] 1.
  To crash a program by overrunning a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data....
• followup n. [common] On Usenet, a posting generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a reply, which goes by email rather than being broadcast).
  Followups include the ID of the parent message in their heade...