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• cience-fiction fandom n. Another voluntary subculture having a very heavy overlap with hackerdom
  most hackers read SF and/or fantasy fiction avidly, and many go to `cons' (SF conventions) or are involved in fandom-connected activities such as the Society for Creative Anachronism....
• mundane: [from SF fandom] n. 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom.
  2. A person who is not in the computer industry. In this sense, most often an adjectival modifier as in "in my mundane life....
• eep-neep: /neep neep/ [onomatopoeic, from New York SF fandom] n.
  One who is fascinated by computers. Less specific than {hacker}, as it need not imply more skill than is required to boot games on a PC....
• mundane n. [from SF fandom] 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom.
  2. A person who is not in the computer industry....
• eep-neep /neep neep/ n. [onomatopoeic, widely spread through SF fandom but reported to have originated at Caltech in the 1970s] One who is fascinated by computers.
  Less specific than hacker, as it need not imply more skill than is required to boot games on a PC....
• con n. [from SF fandom] A science-fiction convention.
  Not used of other sorts of conventions, such as professional meetings....
• con: [from SF fandom] n. A science-fiction convention.
  Not used of other sorts of conventions, such as professional meetings....
• Sturgeon's Law: prov. "Ninety percent of everything is crap".
  Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud....
• ha ha only serious: [from SF fandom, orig. as mutation of HHOK, `Ha Ha Only Kidding'] A phrase (often seen abbreviated as HHOS) that aptly captures the flavor of much hacker discourse.
  Applied especially to parodies, absurdities, and ironic jokes that are both intended and perceived to contain a possibly disquieting amount of truth, or truths that are constructed on in-joke and self-parody....