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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>lamer</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="../L.html" title="L"/><link rel="previous" href="lag.html" title="lag"/><link rel="next" href="LAN-party.html" title="LAN party"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">lamer</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lag.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">L</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="LAN-party.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="lamer"/><dt xmlns="" id="lamer"><b>lamer</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [originally among Amiga fans] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Synonym for <a href="luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a>, not used much by
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hackers but common among <a href="../W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a>, crackers, and
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<a href="../P/phreaker.html"><i class="glossterm">phreaker</i></a>s. A person who downloads much, but who
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never uploads. (Also known as <span class="firstterm">leecher</span>). Oppose <a href="../E/elite.html"><i class="glossterm">elite</i></a>.
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Has the same connotations of self-conscious elitism that use of
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<a href="luser.html"><i class="glossterm">luser</i></a> does among hackers. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Someone who tries to crack a BBS. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. Someone who annoys the sysop or other BBS users — for instance,
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by posting lots of silly messages, uploading virus-ridden software,
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frequently dropping carrier, etc.</p><p>Crackers also use it to refer to cracker
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<a href="../W/wannabee.html"><i class="glossterm">wannabee</i></a>s. In phreak culture, a lamer is one who
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scams codes off others rather than doing cracks or really understanding the
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fundamental concepts. In <a href="../W/warez-d00dz.html"><i class="glossterm">warez d00dz</i></a> culture, where
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the ability to wave around cracked commercial software within days of (or
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before) release to the commercial market is much esteemed, the lamer might
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try to upload garbage or shareware or something incredibly old (old in this
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context is read as a few years to anything older than 3 days).
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‘Lamer’ is also much used in the IRC world in a similar sense
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to the above.</p></dd><dd><p>This term seems to have originated in the Commodore-64 scene in the
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mid 1980s. It was popularized among Amiga crackers of the mid-1980s by
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‘Lamer Exterminator’, the most famous and feared Amiga virus
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ever, which gradually corrupted non-write-protected floppy disks with bad
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sectors. The bad sectors, when looked at, were overwritten with repetitions
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of the string “<span class="quote">LAMER!</span>”.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="lag.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../L.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="LAN-party.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">lag<EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>LAN party</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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