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• bixie: /bik'see/ n. Variant {emoticon}s used on BIX (the Byte Information eXchange).
  The {smiley} bixie is <@_@>, apparently intending to represent two cartoon eyes and a mouth....
• emoticon /ee-moh'ti-kon/ n. [common] An ASCII glyph used to indicate an emotional state in email or news.
  Although originally intended mostly as jokes, emoticons (or some other explicit humor indication) are virtually required under certain circumstances in high-volume text-only communication forums such as Usene...
• bixen pl.n. Users of BIX (the BIX Information eXchange, formerly the Byte Information eXchange).
  Parallels other plurals like boxen, VAXen, oxen....
• I have more information in one place than anybody in the world.
  -- Jerry Pournelle, an absurd notion, apparently about the BIX BBS...
• 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....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• geek code n. (also "Code of the Geeks"). A set of codes commonly used in sig blocks to broadcast the interests, skills, and aspirations of the poster.
  Features a G at the left margin followed by numerous letter codes, often suffixed with plusses or minuses....
• precedence lossage /pre's*-dens los'*j/ n. [C programmers] Coding error in an expression due to unexpected grouping of arithmetic or logical operators by the compiler.
  Used esp. of certain common coding errors in C due to the nonintuitively low precedence levels of &...
• 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....