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2014-04-26 10:52:28 -04:00
pr0n
2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
// [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 warez kiddies 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
libpr0n. Compare filk , grilf , hing and newsfroup.