RTM /R-T-M/ [Usenet: Abbreviation For `Read The Manual'] 1.

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RTM /R-T-M/

[Usenet: abbreviation for `Read The Manual']
1. Politer variant of RTFM. 2. Robert Tappan Morris,
perpetrator of the great Internet worm of 1988 (see Great Worm); villain to many, naive ha
claimed that the worm that brought the Internet to its knees was a
benign experiment that got out of control as the result of a coding
error. After the storm of negative publicity that followed this
blunder, Morris's username on ITS was hacked from RTM to
RTFM.

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