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• fuzzball n. [TCP/IP hackers] A DEC LSI-11 running a particular suite of homebrewed software written by Dave Mills and assorted co-conspirato
  used in the early 1980s for Internet protocol testbedding and experimentation....
• 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...
• TCP/IP /T'C-P I'P/ n. 1. [Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol] The wide-area-networking protocol that makes the Internet work
  and the only one most hackers can speak the name of without laughing or retching....
• DEC: n. Digital Equipment Corporation. Before the {killer micro} revolution of the late 1980s, hackerdom was closely symbiotic with DEC's pioneering timesharing machines.
  The first of the group of cultures described by this lexicon nucleated around the PDP-1 (see {TMRC}....
• bit bang: n. Transmission of data on a serial line, when accomplished by rapidly tweaking a single output bit, in software, at the appropriate times.
  The technique is a simple loop with eight OUT and SHIFT instruction pairs for each byte....
• LPT: /L-P-T/ or /lip'it/ or /lip-it'/ n. Line printer, of course.
  Rare under UNIX, more common among hackers who grew up with ITS, MS-DOS, CP/M and other operating systems that were strongly influenced by early DEC conventions....
• humma: // excl. A filler word used on various `chat' and `talk' programs when you had nothing to say but felt that it was important to say something.
  The word apparently originated (at least with this definition) on the MECC Timeshare System (MTS, a now-defunct educational time-sharing system running in Minnesota during the 1970s and the early 1980s) but was later sighted on early UNIX systems....
• Tinkerbell program n. [Great Britain] A monitoring program used to scan incoming network calls and generate alerts when calls are received from particular site
  or when logins are attempted using certain IDs....
• DEC /dek/ n. 1. v. Verbal (and only rarely written) shorthand for decrement, i.
  e. `decrease by one'. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have a dec mnemonic....