elite adj.
Clueful. Plugged-in. One of the
cognoscenti. Also used as a general positive adjective. This term
is not actually hacker slang in the strict sense; it is used
primarily by crackers and warez d00dz, for which reason
hackers use it only with heavy irony. The term used to
refer to the folks allowed in to the "hidden" or "privileged"
sections of BBSes in the early 1980s (which, typically, contained
pirated software). Frequently, early boards would only let you
post, or even see, a certain subset of the sections (or `boards')
on a BBS. Those who got to the frequently legendary `triple super
secret' boards were elite. Misspellings of this term in warez d00dz
style abound; the forms `eleet', and `31337' (among others)
have been sighted.
A true hacker would be more likely to use `wizardly'. Oppose
lamer.
Clueful. Plugged-in. One of the
cognoscenti. Also used as a general positive adjective. This term
is not actually hacker slang in the strict sense; it is used
primarily by crackers and warez d00dz, for which reason
hackers use it only with heavy irony. The term used to
refer to the folks allowed in to the "hidden" or "privileged"
sections of BBSes in the early 1980s (which, typically, contained
pirated software). Frequently, early boards would only let you
post, or even see, a certain subset of the sections (or `boards')
on a BBS. Those who got to the frequently legendary `triple super
secret' boards were elite. Misspellings of this term in warez d00dz
style abound; the forms `eleet', and `31337' (among others)
have been sighted.
A true hacker would be more likely to use `wizardly'. Oppose
lamer.
Related:
- lamer n.
[prob. originated in skateboarder slang]
1.
Synonym for luser, not used much by hackers but common... - warez d00dz /weirz doodz/ n.
A substantial subculture of
crackers refer to themselves as `warez d00dz';
there is evidently some connection with B1FF here... - warez /weirz/ n.
Widely used in cracker subcultures
to denote cracked version of commercial software,
that is versions from which copy-protection has... - hacker n.
[originally, someone who makes furniture with an
axe] 1.
A person who enjoys exploring the details of programmable... - poser n.
A wannabee; not hacker slang, but used among
crackers,
phreaks and warez d00dz. Not as negative as lamer... - foo /foo/
1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very
common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely
anything,
esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First... - handle n.
1. [from CB slang] An electronic pseudonym;
a `nom de guerre' intended to conceal the user's... - Berkeley Quality Software adj.
(often abbreviated `BQS')
Term used in a pejorative sense to refer to software that was
apparently created by rather spaced-out hackers late at night to
solve some unique problem.
It usually has nonexistent, incomplete, or incorrect... - bboard: /bee'bord/ [contraction of `bulletin board'] n.
1. Any electronic bulletin board; esp. used of {BBS}...
From the same category:
- copy protection n.
A class of methods for preventing
incompetent pirates from stealing software and legitimate customers
from using it.
Considered silly... - server n.
A kind of daemon that performs a service for
the requester and which often runs on a computer other than the one
on which the server runs.
A particularly common term on the ... - gnarly /nar'lee/ adj.
Both obscure and hairy
(sense 1).
"Yow! -- the tuned assembler implementation of BitBlt... - net.- /net dot/ pref.
[Usenet] Prefix used to describe
people and events related to Usenet.
From the time before the Great Renaming, when most... - Internet Exploiter n.
Another common name-of-insult for
Internet Explorer,
Microsoft's overweight Web Browser; more hostile ...
