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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>scrool</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="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="scrog.html" title="scrog"/><link rel="next" href="scrozzle.html" title="scrozzle"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">scrool</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="scrog.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scrozzle.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="scrool"/><dt xmlns="" id="scrool"><b>scrool</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/skrool/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [from the pioneering Roundtable chat system in Houston ca.: 1984;
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prob.: originated as a typo for ‘scroll’] The log of old
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messages, available for later perusal or to help one get back in synch with
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the conversation. It was originally called the <span class="firstterm">scrool monster</span>, because an early version of the
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roundtable software had a bug where it would dump all 8K of scrool on a
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user's terminal.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="scrog.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="scrozzle.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">scrog </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> scrozzle</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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