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• con: [from SF fandom] n. A science-fiction convention.
  Not used of other sorts of conventions, such as professional meetings....
• fan: n. Without qualification, indicates a fan of science fiction, especially one who goes to {con}s and tends to hang out with other fans.
  Many hackers are fans, so this term has been imported from fannish slang...
• fan n. Without qualification, indicates a fan of science fiction, especially one who goes to cons and tends to hang out with other fans.
  Many hackers are fans, so this term has been imported from fannish slang...
• 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....
• 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....
• party /at'par`tee/ n. [from the @-sign in an Internet address] (alt.
  `@-sign party' /at'si:n par`tee/) A semi-closed party thrown for hackers at a science-fiction convention (esp....
• BNF /B-N-F/ n. 1. [techspeak] Acronym for `Backus Normal Form' (often incorrectly expanded as `Backus-Naur Form')
  a metasyntactic notation used to specify the syntax of programming languages, command sets, and the like....
• etwork address: n. (also `net address') As used by hackers, means an address on `the' network (see {network, the}
  his is almost always a {bang path} or {{Internet address}})....
• 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....