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• jack in v. To log on to a machine or connect to a network or BBS, esp.
  for purposes of entering a virtual reality simulation such as a MUD or IRC (leaving is "jacking out")....
• bamf: /bamf/ 1. [from old X-Men comics] interj. Notional sound made by a person or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity.
  Often used in {virtual reality} (esp. {MUD}) electronic {fora} when a character wishes to make a dramatic entrance or exit....
• VR: // [MUD] n. On-line abbrev for {virtual reality}, as opposed to {RL}.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• bamf /bamf/ 1. [from X-Men comics; originally "bampf"] interj.
  Notional sound made by a person or object teleporting in or out of the hearer's vicinity....
• finn: [IRC] v. To pull rank on somebody based on the amount of time one has spent on {IRC}.
  The term derives from the fact that IRC was originally written in Finland in 1987....
• ucking mud: [Applied Data Research] adj. (also `pumping mud') Crashed or {wedged}.
  Usually said of a machine that provides some service to a network, such as a file server....
• cyberspace: /si:'ber-spays/ n. 1. Notional `information-space' loaded with visual cues and navigable with brain-computer interfaces called `cyberspace decks'
  a characteristic prop of {cyberpunk} SF. At the time of this writing (mid-1991), serious efforts to construct {virtual reality} interfaces modeled explicitly on Gibsonian cyberspace are already under way, using more conventional devices such as glove sensors and binocular TV headsets....
• etlag: [IRC, MUD] n. A condition that occurs when the delays in the {IRC} network or on a {MUD} become severe enough that servers briefly lose and then reestablish contac
  causing messages to be delivered in bursts, often with delays of up to a minute....
• 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....