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• party: /at'par`tee/ [from the @-sign in an Internet address] n.
  (alt. `@-sign party' /at'si:n par`tee/) A semi-closed party thrown for hackers at a science-fiction convention (esp....
• con n. [from SF fandom] A science-fiction convention.
  Not used of other sorts of conventions, such as professional meetings....
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• etwork address: n. (also `net address') As used by hackers, means an address on `the' network (see {network, the}
  his is almost always a {bang path} or {{Internet address}})....
• IRC: /I-R-C/ [Internet Relay Chat] n. A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time.
  IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user....
• con: [from SF fandom] n. A science-fiction convention.
  Not used of other sorts of conventions, such as professional meetings....
• IRC /I-R-C/ n. [Internet Relay Chat] A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time.
  IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user....
• demoparty n. [demoscene] Aboveground descendant of the copyparty, with emphasis shifted away from software piracy and towards compos.
  Smaller demoparties, for 100 persons or less, are held quite often, sometimes even once a month, and usually last for one to two days....
• bang path: n. An old-style UUCP electronic-mail address specifying hops to get from some assumed-reachable location to the addressee, so called because each {hop} is signified by a {bang} sign.
  Thus, for example, the path ...!bigsite!foovax!...