tourist
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tourist
the lowest class of accommodation on a passenger ship
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tourist
(jargon)A guest on the system, especially one who generally
logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode,
electronic mail, games and other trivial purposes. A
tourist is one step below a luser.
Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms).
Compare twink, read-only user.
Hackers often spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms).
Compare twink, read-only user.
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