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• September that never ended All time since September 1993.
  One of the seasonal rhythms of the Usenet used to be the annual September influx of clueless newbies who, lacking any sense of netiquette, made a general nuisance of themselves....
• How many AOL users -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Eleven. One to ask to be on the light bulb gif mailing list, nine to say "ME TOO!...
• ASCII /as'kee/ n. [originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers.
  The standard version uses 7 bits for each character, whereas most earlier codes (including early drafts of of ASCII prior to June 1961) used fewer....
• How many AOL users -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Eight. One screws in the light bulb, but seven more do too, due to a software bug....
• B1FF /bif/ [Usenet] (alt. `BIFF') n. The most famous pseudo, and the prototypical newbie.
  Articles from B1FF feature all uppercase letters sprinkled liberally with bangs, typos, `cute' misspellings (EVRY BUDY LUVS GOOD OLD BIFF CUZ HE"S A K00L DOOD AN HE RITES REEL AWESUM THINGZ IN CAPITULL LETTRS LIKE THIS!...
• geek code n. (also "Code of the Geeks"). A set of codes commonly used in sig blocks to broadcast the interests, skills, and aspirations of the poster.
  Features a G at the left margin followed by numerous letter codes, often suffixed with plusses or minuses....
• He does TOO have to shoot me now! SO SHOOT ME NOW! <BLAM&l
• lt;rindolf> Linuxgrrl: well The Gilmore Girls is also a drama.
  Sort of a dramedie, but a serious one....
• BITNET /bit'net/ n., obs. [acronym: Because It's Time NETwork] Everybody's least favorite piece of the network (see the network) - until AOL happened.
  The BITNET hosts were a collection of IBM dinosaurs and VAXen (the latter with lobotomized comm hardware) that communicate using 80-character EBCDIC card images (see eighty-column mind)...