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• ue-hacker n. [analogy with `trufan' from SF fandom] One who exemplifies the primary values of hacker culture, esp.
  competence and helpfulness to other hackers. A high compliment....
• True Names ... and Other Dangers: Vernor Vinge Baen Books, 1987 ISBN 0-671-65363-6 Hacker demigod Richard Stallman believes the title story of this book "expresses the spirit of hacking best".
  This may well be true; it's certainly difficult to recall a better job....
• demigod: n. A hacker with years of experience, a national reputatio
  and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community....
• 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....
• 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...
• demigod n. A hacker with years of experience, a world-wide reputatio
  and a major role in the development of at least one design, tool, or game used by or known to more than half of the hacker community....
• 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....
• hackish /hak'ish/ adj. (also hackishness n.) 1. Said of something that is or involves a hack.
  2. Of or pertaining to hackers or the hacker subculture. See also true-hacker....
• wannabee /won'*-bee/ n. (also, more plausibly, spelled `wannabe') [from a term recently used to describe Madonna fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol
  prob. originally from biker slang] A would-be hacker....