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• life: n. 1. A cellular-automata game invented by John Horton Conway and first introduced publicly by Martin Gardner ("Scientific American", October 1970)
  he game's popularity had to wait a few years for computers on which it could reasonably be played, as it's no fun to simulate the cells by hand....
• SPACEWAR: n. A space-combat simulation game, inspired by E.
  E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace....
• Gosperism: /gos'p*r-izm/ A hack, invention, or saying due to arch-hacker R.
  William (Bill) Gosper. This notion merits its own term because there are so many of them....
• phreaking: /freek'ing/ [from `phone phreak'] n. 1. The art and science of cracking the phone network (so as, for example, to make free long-distance calls).
  2. By extension, security-cracking in any other context (especially, but not exclusively, on communications networks) (see {cracking})....
• HAKMEM /hak'mem/ n. MIT AI Memo 239 (February 1972).
  A legendary collection of neat mathematical and programming hacks contributed by many people at MIT and elsewhere....
• Life is a Game; Cheat!
• demigod: n. A hacker with years of experience, a national reputatio
  and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community....
• Core Wars: n. A game between `assembler' programs in a simulated machine, where the objective is to kill your opponent's program by overwriting it.
  Popularized by A. K. Dewdney's column in "Scientific American" magazine, this was actually devised by Victor Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr....
• phreaking /freek'ing/ n. [from `phone phreak'] 1.
  The art and science of cracking the phone network (so as, for example, to make free long-distance calls)....