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• demoscene /dem'oh-seen/ [also `demo scene'] A culture of multimedia hackers located primarily in Scandinavia and northern Europe.
  Demoscene folklore recounts that when old-time warez d00dz cracked some piece of advertisement of in the beginning, usually containing colorful display hacks with greetings to other cracking groups....
• compo n. [demoscene] Finnish-originated slang for `competition'.
  Demo compos are held at a demoparty. The usual protocol is that several groups make demos for a compo, they are shown on a big screen, and then the party participants vote for the best one....
• copyparty n. [C64/amiga demoscene ]A computer party organized so demosceners can meet other in real life, and to facilitate software copying (mostly pirated software).
  The copyparty has become less common as the Internet makes communication easier....
• blinkenlights /blink'*n-li:tz/ n. [common] Front-panel diagnostic lights on a computer, esp.
  a dinosaur. Now that dinosaurs are rare, this term usually refers to status lights on a modem, network hub, or the like....
• party /at'par`tee/ n. [from the @-sign in an Internet address] (alt.
  `@-sign party' /at'si:n par`tee/) A semi-closed party thrown for hackers at a science-fiction convention (esp....
• The following was taken from a guide for aspiring writers.
  "New writers usually cannot convince large, prestigious publishers that their work is marketable, so they must first publish with smaller, less well-known presses to establish a sales record....
• RFC /R-F-C/ n. [Request For Comment] One of a long-established series of numbered Internet informational documents and standards widely followed by commercial software and freeware in the Internet and Unix communities.
  Perhaps the single most influential one has been RFC-822 (the Internet mail-format standard)....
• Q: How many lawyers does it take to change a light bulb?
  A: Whereas the party of the first part, also known as "Lawyer", and the party of the second part, also known as "Light Bulb", do hereby and forthwith agree to a transaction wherein the party of the second part shall be removed from the current position as a result of failure to perform previously agreed upon duties, i....
• demoeffect n. [demoscene] What among hackers is called a display hack.
  Classical effects include "plasma" (colorful mess), "keftales" (x*x+y*y and other similar patterns, usually combined with color-cycling), realtime fractals, realtime 3d graphics, etc....