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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>pr0n</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="power-hit.html" title="power hit"/><link rel="next" href="precedence-lossage.html" title="precedence lossage"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">pr0n</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="power-hit.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="precedence-lossage.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="pr0n"/><dt xmlns="" id="pr0n"><b>pr0n</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">//</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet, IRC] Pornography. Originally this referred only to
Internet porn but since then it has expanded to refer to just about any
kind. The term comes from the <a href="../W/warez-kiddies.html"><i class="glossterm">warez kiddies</i></a>
tendency to replace letters with numbers. At some point on IRC someone
mistyped, swapping the middle two characters, and the name stuck. It then
propagated over into mainstream hacker usage. New versions of the Mozilla
web browser internally refer to the image library as
&#8220;<span class="quote">libpr0n</span>&#8221;. Compare <a href="../F/filk.html"><i class="glossterm">filk</i></a>,
<a href="../G/grilf.html"><i class="glossterm">grilf</i></a>, <a href="../H/hing.html"><i class="glossterm">hing</i></a> and
<a href="../N/newsfroup.html"><i class="glossterm">newsfroup</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="power-hit.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="precedence-lossage.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">power hit </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> precedence lossage</td></tr></table></div></body></html>