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• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• 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....
• RTFS /R-T-F-S/ [Unix] 1. imp. Abbreviation for `Read The Fucking Source'.
  Variant form of RTFM, used when the problem at hand is not necessarily obvious and not answerable from the manuals -- or the manuals are not yet written and maybe never will be....
• ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.
  ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&...
• postmaster: n. The email contact and maintenance person at a site connected to the Internet or UUCPNET.
  Often, but not always, the same as the {admin}....
• IRC /I-R-C/ n. [Internet Relay Chat] A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time.
  IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user....
• IRC: /I-R-C/ [Internet Relay Chat] n. A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time.
  IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user....
• bob n. At Demon Internet, all tech support personal are called "Bob".
  (Female support personnel have an option on "Bobette")....
• On the other hand, the TCP camp also has a phrase for OSI people.
  There are lots of phrases. My favorite is `nitwit' -- and the rationale is the Internet philosophy has always been you have extremely bright, non-partisan researchers look at a topic, do world-class research, do several competing implementations, have a bake-off, determine what works best, write it down and make that the standard....