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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tourist</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TOS.html" title="TOS"/><link rel="next" href="tourist-information.html" title="tourist information"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tourist</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TOS.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tourist-information.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tourist"/><dt xmlns="" id="tourist"><b>tourist</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in
over a network from a remote location for <a href="../C/comm-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">comm mode</i></a>,
email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below
<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>. ITS hackers often used to spell this
<a href="turist.html"><i class="glossterm">turist</i></a>, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with
<a href="../L/luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a> (this usage may also have expressed the ITS
culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and/or been some sort of tribute to
Alan Turing). Compare <a href="twink.html"><i class="glossterm">twink</i></a>,
<a href="../L/lurker.html"><i class="glossterm">lurker</i></a>, <a href="../R/read-only-user.html"><i class="glossterm">read-only user</i></a>.
</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [IRC] An <a href="../I/IRC.html"><i class="glossterm">IRC</i></a> user who goes from channel to
channel without saying anything; see
<a href="../C/channel-hopping.html"><i class="glossterm">channel hopping</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TOS.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tourist-information.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">TOS </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> tourist information</td></tr></table></div></body></html>