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• Great Worm n. The 1988 Internet worm perpetrated by RTM.
  This is a play on Tolkien (compare elvish, elder days)....
• worm: [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] n.
  A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes....
• elder days: n. The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980)
  he era of the {PDP-10}, {TECO}, {{ITS}}, and the ARPANET....
• RTM: /R-T-M/ [USENET: abbreviation for `Read The Manual'] 1.
  Politer variant of {RTFM}. 2. Robert T. Morris Jr....
• worm n. [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes.
  Compare virus. Nowadays the term has negative connotations, as it is assumed that only crackers write worms....
• RTM /R-T-M/ [Usenet: abbreviation for `Read The Manual'] 1.
  Politer variant of RTFM. 2. Robert Tappan Morris, perpetrator of the great Internet worm of 1988 (see Great Worm)...
• moria: /mor'ee-*/ n. Like {nethack} and {rogue}, one of the large PD Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide range of machines and operating systems.
  The name is from Tolkien's Mines of Moria; compare {elder days}, {elvish}....
• ecurity through obscurity (alt. `security by obscurity') A term applied by hackers to most OS vendors' favorite way of coping with security holes -- namely
  ignoring them, documenting neither any known holes nor the underlying security algorithms, trusting that nobody will find out about them and that people who do find out about them won't exploit them....
• bang: 1. n. Common spoken name for `!' (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a {bang path} in spoken hackish.
  In {elder days} this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring {excl} or {shriek}...