46. Do you grok the lingo?

Welcome to another episode of Flashback, Tracks from the Past, the show that takes you back to the golden age of the tracked music scene. Sit down, terminal yokey, and take a sip of your hacker wasser. We're deep with our noses in the various hacker dictionaries of the 70s, 80s and 90s. This hour, we will learn to deal with our Amiga persecution complex.so we won't be seen as total weenies and get into trouble with the net police.

told me, Flimbo's Quest Medley. There is no way I can list more than a fraction of all slang that the world of computing gave to us. And that slang is sometimes as old as dating from the 40s and 50s. It can even be older than computing itself. Most of the terms in this episode comes from Eric Raymond's legendary jargon file, a file that has also been in print.As most of the terms hail from the 70s, 80s and 90s, it's more than just a little dated today. But hey, it's part of our heritage. So let me explain some of my favorite words just for you. A little bit of a warning before we go any further.When I talk about hackers throughout this episode, I mean skilled programmers and people doing great work in computing, not people breaking into systems.

Mr. Steve Nightwalker. So let's get this list started then, shall we? Entry number one. J. Random Hacker. Noun. It means a hacker. Like, you know, any hacker. The Jorgun file states that a hacker is, and I quote, a mythical figure like the Unknown Soldier, the archetypal hacker nerd.This term is one of the oldest in the jargon, apparently going back to the MIT in the 1960s. Hacker does not mean someone breaking into systems, as this is a much newer meaning of that word. A hacker is a title given by a much more experienced hacker to someone just earning that title in his eyes, and that in itself is a great honor.Mr Raymond has this to say to aspiring hackers. To follow the path. Look at the master. Follow the master. Walk with the master. See through the master. Become the master.

Church of Selene, Paradise Sea. Let's get this list started. First entry is... ...Eminent Death of the Net, predicted. It's a proverb. It's simply the notion that something or someone will destroy the net any day now. Spoiler alert, it won't. This one you should know. It's been done every year since the 80s when it applied to the Usenet.The idea is that the data traffic increases until the net cannot handle it. Well, today it's more like the malicious attacks spinning out of control. Some attacks have done severe damage, but the net is fine, thank you very much. In spite of the Morris Worm, the Mirai Botnet attack and all the love letters in the world.

Blizzard King, God's Revenge. I mean, that guy has everything. He is everything. And he still wants to cause some kind of revenge to us mere mortals of this world. The song is suggested by Koryus from Discord. He may one day become an associate music producer. I don't know. So, the third word of today. It is Terminal Jockey or Terminal Junky. It's a noun.And it's someone spending way too much time in the terminal console, like if they were addicted. When I grew up, I started writing commands rather than clicking on windows and icons. Today, Terminal Yoke is something to strive to be, as it's a very powerful way to control a computer. But the term was originally almost derogatory and meant spending time in the console, but ultimately creating nothing great.The term terminal junkie is more an insult to someone who sits there like in trance, like a heroin addict with an unlimited supply.

Always talented Jogair Liljedal, Oro Incenso. Fourth word of today is Net.police or simply Netpolice, noun. That's people feeling the need to correct others and tell them what they're supposed to do or not while not being in any official position to do just that. I am an amateur radio operator and we have people like that. I can tell you that much.You know, they say stuff like, it's Romeo, not radio! And don't use 14-0-20 for upper sideband, dumbass! Yeah, no one likes those self-appointed sheriffs.

Nico 42 11 just a cool tune. So let's do number five in this list and it is Amiga Persecution Complex. It's a noun. You know the Amiga was ahead of its time and it's because of this Wintel travesty that no one sees how perfect the Amigas are and if it weren't for Billy Gates and Steve JobsWe would have Amigas today and flying cars so there. Damn kids, get off my lawn. You know, it's the few people who can't get over that their platform didn't win. And as a proud Amiga owner, I take no offense in this term involving my beloved computer. This used to be the case with Linux owners back before Linux started winning bigly.And there are some Betamax geeks, vinyl record lovers and why not the occasional OS2 hugger who just can't do it like Elsa and let go. Wintel by the way means Windows and Intel,

Back on beautiful nature. Word number six, and I dedicate this one to my mother. Hacker-vasser. It's a noun. Okay, this is simple. It means Coca-Cola or maybe Jolt-Cola, but never mark my word Pepsi-Cola. It's a word that to my knowledge has never been in the jargon file.I found it in a book of hacker terms in the early 90s and both me and my mother had lots of fun with that book. All hackers crave something to drink while hacking. I mean otherwise we would die from thirst, you know. My weapons of choice were Coca Cola, lots of tea and occasional ginger ale mixed with banana flavor. Don't ask. Alcohol is not advisable while hacking.

Mikko of Razor1911 Propaganda v2.2 Word number 7 is weenie. It's a noun. Okay, it's another word to hate the computer illiterate, you know. Words like loser, lamer, stupids and nude.simply someone who knows nothing. The Jorgon file notes that Unix Weenie is a play on Unix Wizard. I guess that's where it comes from. A wizard is a great hacker with expert knowledge and skills to match. So a Unix Weenie is then a person who should know the Unix operating system perfectly, only does not and is not competent.

Junkie of tequila, removering. So, we are at the end of the list. Word number eight, hack attack, noun. Same source as hacker-wasser. Today it would probably mean getting hacked, no fun. But in the early 90s, it apparently meant being in the zone, working hard on creating stuff just because you feel the inspiration.The adrenaline rushing and the feeling of pure invisibility. Sleep is non-optional and so is hygiene and friends.

And that was Necros, tangerine fascination. So if you are really in love with this list, you ain't seen nothing yet.

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This is weird one. I don't know if you played that old game, the shoot up game called Xenon 2. Because this is the music that runs in the game. But this is a version that's very slow. We don't know who did it, who created it. But it's called The End. And this is kinda the end, at least for this podcast. But we'll be back, as I said, next week. This is DJ Demon, and remember, you can find us on Ericade.Radio.

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