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lamer
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n. [originally among Amiga fans] 1. Synonym for luser , not used much by
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hackers but common among warez d00dz , crackers, and phreaker s. A person
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who downloads much, but who never uploads. (Also known as leecher ). Oppose
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elite. Has the same connotations of self-conscious elitism that use of luser
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does among hackers. 2. Someone who tries to crack a BBS. 3. Someone who
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annoys the sysop or other BBS users for instance, by posting lots of silly
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messages, uploading virus-ridden software, frequently dropping carrier, etc.
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Crackers also use it to refer to cracker wannabees. In phreak culture, a
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lamer is one who scams codes off others rather than doing cracks or really
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understanding the fundamental concepts. In warez d00dz culture, where the
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ability to wave around cracked commercial software within days of (or
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before) release to the commercial market is much esteemed, the lamer might
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try to upload garbage or shareware or something incredibly old (old in this
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context is read as a few years to anything older than 3 days). Lamer is also
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much used in the IRC world in a similar sense to the above. This term seems
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to have originated in the Commodore-64 scene in the mid 1980s. It was
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popularized among Amiga crackers of the mid-1980s by Lamer Exterminator ,
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the most famous and feared Amiga virus ever, which gradually corrupted
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non-write-protected floppy disks with bad sectors. The bad sectors, when
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looked at, were overwritten with repetitions of the string LAMER!.
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