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• mundane: [from SF fandom] n. 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom.
  2. A person who is not in the computer industry. In this sense, most often an adjectival modifier as in "in my mundane life....
• cience-fiction fandom n. Another voluntary subculture having a very heavy overlap with hackerdom
  most hackers read SF and/or fantasy fiction avidly, and many go to `cons' (SF conventions) or are involved in fandom-connected activities such as the Society for Creative Anachronism....
• cience-fiction fandom:: n. Another voluntary subculture having a very heavy overlap with hackerdom
  most hackers read SF and/or fantasy fiction avidly, and many go to `cons' (SF conventions) or are involved in fandom-connected activities such as the Society for Creative Anachronism....
• con n. [from SF fandom] A science-fiction convention.
  Not used of other sorts of conventions, such as professional meetings....
• lurker n. One of the `silent majority' in a electronic forum
  one who posts occasionally or not at all but is known to read the group's postings regularly....
• Real World n. 1. Those institutions at which `programming' may be used in the same sentence as `FORTRAN', `COBOL', `RPG', `IBM', `DBASE', etc.
  Places where programs do such commercially necessary but intellectually uninspiring things as generating payroll checks and invoices....
• Real World: n. 1. Those institutions at which `programming' may be used in the same sentence as `FORTRAN', `{COBOL}', `RPG', `{IBM}', `DBASE', etc.
  Places where programs do such commercially necessary but intellectually uninspiring things as generating payroll checks and invoices....
• eep-neep: /neep neep/ [onomatopoeic, from New York SF fandom] n.
  One who is fascinated by computers. Less specific than {hacker}, as it need not imply more skill than is required to boot games on a PC....
• Sturgeon's Law prov. "Ninety percent of everything is crap".
  Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud....