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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>funny money</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="funky.html" title="funky"/><link rel="next" href="furrfu.html" title="furrfu"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">funny money</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="funky.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="furrfu.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="funny-money"/><dt xmlns="" id="funny-money"><b>funny money</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Notional ‘dollar’ units of computing time and/or
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storage handed to students at the beginning of a computer course; also
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called <span class="firstterm">play money</span> or <span class="firstterm">purple money</span> (in implicit opposition to real or
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<span class="firstterm">green</span> money). In New Zealand and
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Germany the odd usage <span class="firstterm">paper money</span> has
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been recorded; in Germany, the particularly amusing synonym <span class="firstterm">transfer ruble</span> commemorates the funny money
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used for trade between COMECON countries back when the Soviet Bloc still
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existed. When your funny money ran out, your account froze and you needed
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to go to a professor to get more. Fortunately, the plunging cost of
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timesharing cycles has made this less common. The amounts allocated were
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almost invariably too small, even for the non-hackers who wanted to slide
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by with minimum work. In extreme cases, the practice led to small-scale
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black markets in bootlegged computer accounts. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, phantom money or quantity tickets of any kind used
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as a resource-allocation hack within a system. Antonym: <span class="firstterm">real money</span>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="funky.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="furrfu.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">funky<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>furrfu</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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