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• murf /smerf/ n. [from the soc.motss newsgroup on Usenet, after some obnoxiously gooey cartoon characters] A newsgroup regular with a habitual style that is irreverent, silly, and cute.
  Like many other hackish terms for people, this one may be praise or insult depending on who uses it....
• ewsfroup: // [USENET] n. Silly synonym for {newsgroup}, originally a typo but now in regular use on USENET's talk.
  bizarre and other lunatic-fringe groups. Compare {hing}, {grilf}, and {filk}....
• ewbie: /n[y]oo'bee/ n. [orig. from British public-school and military slang variant of `new boy'] A USENET neophyte.
  This term surfaced in the {newsgroup} talk.bizarre but is now in wide use....
• bboard: /bee'bord/ [contraction of `bulletin board'] n.
  1. Any electronic bulletin board; esp. used of {BBS} systems running on personal micros, less frequently of a USENET {newsgroup} (in fact, use of this term for a newsgroup generally marks one either as a {newbie} fresh in from the BBS world or as a real old-timer predating USENET)....
• MOTSS: /mots/ or /M-O-T-S-S/ [from the 1970 U.S. census forms via USENET] n.
  Member Of The Same Sex, esp. one considered as a possible sexual partner....
• ewbie /n[y]oo'bee/ n. [verry common; orig. from British public-school and military slang variant of `new boy'] A Usenet neophyte.
  This term surfaced in the newsgroup talk.bizarre but is now in wide use....
• furrfu: // [USENET] excl. Written-only equivalent of "Sheesh!
  it is, in fact, "sheesh" modified by {rot13}. Evolved in mid-1992 as a response to notably silly postings repeating urban myths on the USENET newsgroup alt....
• ewsfroup // n. [Usenet] Silly synonym for newsgroup, originally a typo but now in regular use on Usenet's talk.
  bizarre, and other lunatic-fringe groups. Compare hing, grilf, pr0n and fi...
• virtual reality: n. 1. Computer simulations that use 3-D graphics and devices such as the Dataglove to allow the user to interact with the simulation.
  See {cyberspace}. 2. A form of network interaction incorporating aspects of role-playing games, interactive theater, improvisational comedy, and `true confessions' magazines....