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eat flaming death imp. A construction popularized among hackers by the infamous CPU Wars comic
upposedly derive from a famously turgid line in a WWII-era anti-Nazi propaganda comic tha...
EBCDIC /eb's*-dik/, /eb'see`dik/, or /eb'k*-dik/ n.
[abbreviation, Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code] An alleged character set used on IBM dinosaurs....
echo [FidoNet] n. A topic group on FidoNet's echomail system. Compare newsgroup.
ECP /E-C-P/ n. See spam and velveeta.
ed n. "ed is the standard text editor.
egosurf vi. To search the net for your name or links to your web pages.
Perhaps connected to long-established SF-fan slang `egoscan', to search for one's name in a fanzine....
eighty-column mind n. [IBM] The sort said to be possessed by persons for whom the transition from punched card to tape was traumatic (nobody has dared tell them about disks yet).
It is said ...
El Camino Bignum /el' k*-mee'noh big'nuhm/ n. The road mundanely called El Camino Real, running along San Francisco peninsula.
It originally extended all the way down to Mexico City; many...
elder days n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980)
he era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J....
elegant adj. [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a certain ineffable grace of design.
Higher praise than `clever', `winning', or even cuspy. The French avi...

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