All hobbies and fields create their own slang. The retro world has a gigantic library of words for the skilled, the unskilled and various computers and programs. DJ Daemon digs through words and the cool explanations that really makes you understand the attitude of true hackers. Not the kind that breaks into stuff, but the hackers that builds, programs and creates. Sit down and take a guess what hackerwasser is, why the net isn’t dead yet and why Amiga users feel persecuted (no, we don’t! Or do we?)
Playlist:
00:00 Flashback - tracks from the past - Show intro
00:11 DJ Daemon: Sit down, terminal jockey and take a sip of your hackerwasser. 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 will won't be seen as total weenies and get into trouble with the net.police.
00:34 Uctumi - Flimbo's Quest Medley
04:26 DJ Daemon: There's no way i can list more than a fraction of all slang that the world of computing gave us. And that slang is sometimes as old as dating from the 40s and 50s. It can 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 a part of our heritage. So let me explain some few of my favorite words for you…
05:27 Mr. Stewe - Nightwalker
09:13 DJ Daemon: J. Random Hacker, noun. It means a hacker, like any hacker. The jargon file states that a hacker is "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 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 tile in his eyes. And that is a great honour! Mr Raymond has this to say to aspiring hackers: " To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master. "
10:21 Church of Selene - Paradise Sea
13:46 DJ Daemon: Imminent Death Of The Net Predicted!, proverb It's simply the notion that something is going to 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 Usenet. The idea is that the data traffic increases until the net cannot handle it. Today it's more like the malicious attacks spin 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 love letters in the world.
14:40 Lizardking - god'srevenge
16:48 DJ Daemon: Terminal jockey or Terminal junkie, noun Someone spending way to much time in the terminal console, like if addicted.
18:00 Jogeir Liljedahl - Oro Incenso
24:08 DJ Daemon: Net.police, noun People that feel 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 that.
24:50 Nikku4211 - Just A Cool Tune
29:13 DJ Daemon: Amiga Persecution Complex, noun (...) It's the few people who can't get over that there platform didn't win. And as a proud Amiga owner, I take no offence 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 probably Betamax-geeks, vinyl record-lovers and why not the occasionaly OS/2 hugger that just can't do it like Elsa and let go. Wintel means "Windows and Intel" if you didn't know.
30:27 Drakon - Beautiful nature
33:20 DJ Daemon: "Hacker wasser", noun It simply means Coca-cola or maybe Jolt cola. But never, mark my words, Pepsi cola. ...
34:16 Mikko of Razor1911 - Propaganda # 2.2
38:32 DJ Daemon: "Weenie", noun Ok, it's another word to hate-the-computer-illiterate. You know like Luser, Lamer, Stupids and N00b. Simply someone who knows nothing. ...
39:23 Junkie of Tequila - Renovering
42:25 DJ Daemon: Hack attack, noun. Same source as "Hacker-wasser". Today it would probably mean getting hacked. But in the early 90s, it apparently meant being in the zone and working hard ...
43:06 Necros - Tangerine Fascination
47:18 DJ Daemon: If you're in love with this list, I'll add a link in the description.
47:50 Ng Pei Sin - She Speaks to Me
51:52 DJ Daemon: I will try to pronounce the name of the song (then fails). This podcast will have a new episode every Saturday evening.
52:22 Trackerartist - The End
55:40 DJ Daemon: Talks about Xenon II.
56:10 Silverstance - UnderWater Current
01:00:09 DJ Daemon: Presents the previous and the next (last) tune for today.
01:00:17 David Newman - Flood
Production notes:
I have long loved the idea of computer era slang, and the "Jargon file" is legendary. I had to create this episode.
Colophone
"Grok" is a computer era slang word, meaning to understand intuitively. So it means, "Do you understand the lingo". Lingo is slang for... slang or language. Grok is from Robert A. Heinlein's book "Stranger in a strange land".
Tags: Retro history, Storytelling, Host: DJ Daemon, Eric S. Raymond, Jargon file, 2021
