From b6aff282ae7e2691dd4f687c935e040035b21875 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bob Mottram Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2018 18:57:22 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Try to avoid 'punching down' type terminology --- entries/luser.txt | 19 ------------------- 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 entries/luser.txt diff --git a/entries/luser.txt b/entries/luser.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 5af0e96..0000000 --- a/entries/luser.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ -luser - -/loozr/ , n. [common] A user ; esp. one who is also a loser. ( luser and -loser are pronounced identically.) This word was coined around 1975 at MIT. -Under ITS, when you first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed Control-Z -to get the computer's attention, it printed out some status information, -including how many people were already using the computer; it might print 14 -users , for example. Someone thought it would be a great joke to patch the -system to print 14 losers instead. There ensued a great controversy, as some -of the users didn't particularly want to be called losers to their faces -every time they used the computer. For a while several hackers struggled -covertly, each changing the message behind the back of the others; any time -you logged into the computer it was even money whether it would say users or -losers. Finally, someone tried the compromise lusers , and it stuck. Later -one of the ITS machines supported luser as a request-for-help command. ITS -died the death in mid-1990, except as a museum piece; the usage lives on, -however, and the term luser is often seen in program comments and on Usenet. -Compare mundane , muggle , newbie , chainik. -