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• wormhole /werm'hohl/ n. [from the `wormhole' singularities hypothesized in some versions of General Relativity theory] 1.
  [n.,obs.] A location in a monitor which contains the address of a routine, with the specific intent of making it easy to substitute a different routine....
• usty wire n. [Amateur Packet Radio] Any very noisy network medium, in which the packets are subject to frequent corruption.
  Most prevalent in reference to wireless links subject to all the vagaries of RF noise and marginal propagation conditions....
• gopher n. A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web.
  Gopher presents a menuing interface to a tree or graph of link...
• TCP/IP /T'C-P I'P/ n. 1. [Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol] The wide-area-networking protocol that makes the Internet work
  and the only one most hackers can speak the name of without laughing or retching....
• Michelle: You expect me to live in a tiny little hole?
  Fry: It'd be deeper, but I'm standing on a gopher....
• Amateur radio operators do it with frequency.
• Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts!
• ping [from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
  . Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of another....
• boat anchor n. [common; from ham radio] 1. Like doorstop but more severe
  implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless....