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• channel hopping: [IRC, GEnie] n. To rapidly switch channels on {IRC}, or a GEnie chat board, just as a social butterfly might hop from one group to another at a party.
  This term may derive from the TV watcher's idiom, `channel surfing'....
• channel hopping n. [common; IRC, GEnie] To rapidly switch channels on IRC, or a GEnie chat board, just as a social butterfly might hop from one group to another at a party.
  This term may derive from the TV watcher's idiom, `channel surfing'....
• Surfing the Internet" is a sad term for sad people.
  Get a board, find a beach, surf some REAL waves and get a *real* life....
• 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...
• vadding: /vad'ing/ [from VAD, a permutation of ADV (i.
  e., {ADVENT}), used to avoid a particular {admin}'s continual search-and-destroy sweeps for the game] n....
• vadding /vad'ing/ n. [from VAD, a permutation of ADV (i.
  e., ADVENT), used to avoid a particular admin's continual search-and-destroy sweeps for the game] A leisure-time activity of certain hackers involving the covert exploration of the `secret' parts of large buildings -- basements, roofs, freight elevators, maintenance crawlways, steam tunnels, and the like....
• at dance n. [From the Dilbert comic strip of November 14
  1995] A hacking run that produces results which, while superficially coherent, have little or nothing to do with its original objectives....
• hacker n. [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] 1.
  A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable systems and how to stretch their capabilities, as opposed to most users, who prefer to learn only the minimum necessary....
• oid suff. [from Greek suffix -oid = `in the image of'] 1.
  Used as in mainstream slang English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance....