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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tourist \Tour"ist\, n.
One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tourist
n : someone who travels for pleasure [syn: {holidaymaker}]
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
tourist n. 1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who
generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode},
email, games, and other trivial purposes. One step below {luser}.
ITS hackers often used to spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of
tenuous analogy with {luser} (this usage may also have expressed the ITS
culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and-or been some sort of tribute
to Alan Turing). Compare {twink}, {lurker}, {read-only user}. 2. [IRC]
An {IRC} user who goes from channel to channel without saying anything
see {channel hopping}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
tourist
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}.
[{Jargon File}]
(1995-03-10)
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