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• 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....
• 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....
• wank /wangk/ n.,v.,adj. [Columbia University: prob.
  by mutation from Commonwealth slang v. `wank', to masturbate] Used much as hack is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness....
• wank: /wangk/ [Columbia University: prob. by mutation from Commonwealth slang v.
  `wank', to masturbate] n.,v. Used much as {hack} is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness....
• con n. [from SF fandom] A science-fiction convention.
  Not used of other sorts of conventions, such as professional meetings....
• mundane n. [from SF fandom] 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom.
  2. A person who is not in the computer industry....
• cyberpunk /si:'ber-puhnk/ n.,adj. [orig. by SF writer Bruce Bethke and/or editor Gardner Dozois] A subgenre of SF launched in 1982 by William Gibson's epoch-making novel "Neuromancer" (though its roots go back through Vernor Vinge's "True Names" (see the Bibliography in Appendix C) to John Brunner's 1975 novel "The Shockwave Rider").
  Gibson's near-total ignorance of computers and the present-day hacker culture enabled him to speculate about the role of computers and hackers in the future in ways hackers have since found both irritatingly naï...
• music:: n. A common extracurricular interest of hackers (compare {{science-fiction fandom}}, {{oriental food}}
  ee also {filk}). Hackish folklore has long claimed that musical and programming abilities are closely related, and there has been at least one large-scale statistical study that supports this....