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501: |
Excuse that’s full of holes. |
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A-OLS: |
Administrators On-Line. Computer service
administrators who police the on-line services. They are not fond of kids who don’t
follow the rules. |
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BEAM: |
Real-Time chat line that is private to the Kids. |
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CANCER: |
Deadly virus. |
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COMM & COMMING: |
To communicate via email or real-time text messages. |
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COMMBOT: |
Program that automatically logs the conversation during a
Cyber.Kdz comm. |
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CRASH INTO: |
Break through security to gain access to a private network. Scrunch. |
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DOTGOV: |
Government Officials (derived from the .gov ending of
government email addresses). |
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DOUGHBRAINS: |
People who use the net only to make money. |
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DRIVEL: |
99% of what passes through the net. |
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FAILS, FAILED: |
Stinks; sucks. As in Life fails. Deeder created this
slang early in his flu-hunting career when a virus destroyed the boot sector of his hard
disk and he sat staring at the message on his screen Device C: Failed. Abort? Retry?
Ignore? |
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FLU: |
Bad virus. |
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FRISBEE: |
CD-ROM |
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FRY A SCREEN: |
Send a flame (a flame is a mean or angry message). |
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GODZILLA: |
Computer owned by Deeder that is tricked out and optimized
for detecting and destroying flus and cancers. |
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GREPPER or GREPHEAD: |
Someone who is really into UNIX. (Comes from the UNIX command
grep). |
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KID: |
Fellow member of Cyber.kdz. |
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NASA FLU: |
A virus the Kids found on the NASA network that endangered
the lives of astronauts. Deeder’s father was falsely accused of creating the virus. |
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PLAYDOUGH: |
The money you need to spend to be online. |
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PERCOLATOR: |
Program for the Web written in JAVA. |
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SCRUNCH: |
See Crash into. |
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SCUM OF THE EARTH: |
People who create cancers. |
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SLIDE THE TALKWAYS: |
Surf the Net. |
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SMART TERMINALS: |
Universities. |
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SPIN THE WEB: |
Browse the World Wide Web. |
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STIKS: |
Shirt, Tie, Keyboard. Boring corporate IS people. |
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TAKE A DRIVE FOR A SPIN: |
Search through a huge database. |
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TALKWAY: |
The Wire. |
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THE WIRE: |
The Internet. |
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THREAD SLED: |
World Wide Web Browser. Software used to spin the web.
(You're using one now). |
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TUB: |
A slow modem (9600 baud or less). Also known as a Slow
Boat. |
