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• TELNET: /tel'net/ vt. To communicate with another Internet host using the TELNET ({RFC} 854) protocol (usually using a program of the same name).
  TOPS-10 people used the word IMPCOM, since that was the program name for them....
• Shub-Internet /shuhb' in't*r-net/ n. [MUD: from H.
  P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat with a Thousand Young] The harsh personification of the Interne...
• 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....
• elnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
• leapfrog attack n. Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.
  g., downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc....
• leapfrog attack: n. Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.
  g., downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc....
• FTP /F-T-P/, not /fit'ip/ 1. [techspeak] n. The File Transfer Protocol for transmitting files between systems on the Internet.
  2. vt. To beam a file using the File Transfer Protocol....
• ping [from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
  . Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of another....
• glork: /glork/ 1. interj. Term of mild surprise, usually tinged with outrage, as when one attempts to save the results of two hours of editing and finds that the system has just crashed.
  2. Used as a name for just about anything. See {foo}....