luser
/loo 'zr / A {user }; especially one who is also
a {loser }. ({luser } and {loser } are pronounced identically .)
This word was coined around 1975 at {MIT }.
Under {ITS }, when you first walked up to a terminal at MIT and
typed Control -Z to get the computer 's attention , it printed
out some status information , including how many people were
already using the computer ; it might print "14 users ", for
example . Someone thought it would be a great joke to patch
the system to print "14 losers " instead . There ensued a great
controversy , as some of the users didn 't particularly want to
be called losers to their faces every time they used the
computer . For a while several hackers struggled covertly ,
each changing the message behind the back of the others ; any
time you logged into the computer it was even money whether it
would say "users " or "losers ". Finally , someone tried the
compromise "lusers ", and it stuck .
Later one of the ITS machines supported "luser " as a
request -for -help command . ITS died the death in mid -1990 ,
except as a museum piece ; the usage lives on , however , and the
term "luser " is often seen in program comments .
See : also {LART }. Compare : {tourist }, {weenie }.
[{Jargon File }]
(1998 -07 -01 )luser : /
loo ´
zr /,
n . [
common ]
A user ;
esp .
one who is also a loser . (
luser and loser are pronounced identically .)
This word was coined around 1975 at MIT .
Under ITS ,
when you first walked up to a terminal at MIT and typed Control -
Z to get the computer '
s attention ,
it printed out some status information ,
including how many people were already using the computer ;
it might print “
14 users ”,
for example .
Someone thought it would be a great joke to patch the system to print “
14 losers ”
instead .
There ensued a great controversy ,
as some of the users didn '
t particularly want to be called losers to their faces every time they used the computer .
For a while several hackers struggled covertly ,
each changing the message behind the back of the others ;
any time you logged into the computer it was even money whether it would say “
users ”
or “
losers ”.
Finally ,
someone tried the compromise “
lusers ”,
and it stuck .
Later one of the ITS machines supported luser as a request -
for -
help command .
ITS died the death in mid -
1990 ,
except as a museum piece ;
the usage lives on ,
however ,
and the term luser is often seen in program comments and on Usenet .
Compare mundane ,
muggle ,
newbie ,
chainik .
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