tourist information

n. Information in an on-line display that is not immediately useful, but
contributes to a viewer's gestalt of what's going on with the software or
hardware behind it. Whether a given piece of info falls in this category
depends partly on what the user is looking for at any given time. The bytes
free information at the bottom of an MS-DOS or Windows dir display is
tourist information; so (most of the time) is the TIME information in a Unix
ps (1) display.

