TCP/IP Slang Glossary, #1:
Gong, n: Medieval term for privvy, or what pased for them in that era.
Today used whimsically to describe the aftermath of a bogon attack. Think
of our community as the Galapagos of the English language.
"Vogons may read you bad poetry, but bogons make you study obsolete RFCs."
-- Dave Mills
Gong, n: Medieval term for privvy, or what pased for them in that era.
Today used whimsically to describe the aftermath of a bogon attack. Think
of our community as the Galapagos of the English language.
"Vogons may read you bad poetry, but bogons make you study obsolete RFCs."
-- Dave Mills
Related:
- bogon /boh'gon/ n.
[very common; by analogy with
proton/electron/neutron,
but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity... - ping
[from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
n. Slang term for a small network message (ICMP... - English
1. n. obs. The source code for a program,
which may be in any language, as opposed to the... - English: 1. n.,obs. The source code for a program, which may be in
any language,
as opposed to the linkable or executable binary ... - ping: [from the TCP/IP acronym `Packet INternet Groper',
prob. originally contrived to match the submariners'... - fuzzball n.
[TCP/IP hackers] A DEC LSI-11 running a
particular suite of homebrewed software written by Dave Mills and
assorted co-conspirators,
used in the early 1980s for Internet protocol testbedding... - fuzzball: [TCP/IP hackers] n. A DEC LSI-11 running a particular
suite of homebrewed software written by Dave Mills and assorted
co-conspirators,
used in the early 1980s for Internet protocol testbedding... - erotics /ee-ro'tiks/ n.
[Helsinki University of
Technology,
Finland] n. English-language university slang for ... - quantum bogodynamics /kwon'tm boh`goh-di:-nam'iks/ n.
A theory that characterizes the universe in terms...
From the same category:
- Repeal the
Keene Act... - Pro is to con as progress is to
Congress... - I refuse to fight! I'm a concientious objector." -Bender
"A what?" -Fry
"You know,
a coward." ... - It is a mistake to think of all demons as being exactly alike.
Some are short while others are tall; some are yellow... - At times we must settle for inferior
quality time...
