Related:

• plingnet /pling'net/ n. Syn. UUCPNET. Also see Commonwealth Hackish, which uses `pling' for bang (as in bang path).
• hammer: vt. Commonwealth hackish syn. for {bang on}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• UUCPNET: n. The store-and-forward network consisting of all the world's connected UNIX machines (and others running some clone of the UUCP (UNIX-to-UNIX CoPy) software).
  Any machine reachable only via a {bang path} is on UUCPNET....
• hammer vt. Commonwealth hackish syn. for bang on.
• pound on: vt. Syn. {bang on}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• hop: 1. n. One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network.
  On such networks (including {UUCPNET} and {FidoNet}), an important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path between them, which can be more significant than their geographical separation....
• Commonwealth Hackish n. Hacker jargon as spoken in English outside the U.
  S., esp. in the British Commonwealth. It is reported that Commonwealth speakers are more likely to pronounce truncations like `char' and `soc', etc....
• bang: 1. n. Common spoken name for `!' (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a {bang path} in spoken hackish.
  In {elder days} this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring {excl} or {shriek}...
• path: n. 1. A {bang path} or explicitly routed {{Internet address}}
  a node-by-node specification of a link between two machines....