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tourist
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n. 1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over
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a network from a remote location for comm mode, email, games, and other
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common purposes. ITS hackers often used to spell this turist, perhaps by
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some sort of tenuous analogy with user (this usage may also have expressed
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the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and/or been some sort of
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tribute to Alan Turing). Compare twink, lurker, read-only user. 2. [IRC]
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A chat system user who goes from channel to channel without saying anything;
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see channel hopping.
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