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De - Pt| English Dictionary: RTM | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for RTM | |
| From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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RTM /R-T-M/ [Usenet: abbreviation for `Read The Manual'] 1. Politer variant of {RTFM}. 2. Robert Tappan Morris, perpetrator of the great Internet worm of 1988 (see {Great Worm}); villain to many, naive hacker gone wrong to a few. Morris claimed that the worm that brought the Internet to its knees was a benign experiment that got out of control as the result of a coding error. After the storm of negative publicity that followed this blunder, Morris's username on ITS was hacked from RTM to {RTFM}. | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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RTM 1. [{Usenet}] Read The Manual. Politer variant of {RTFM}. 2. Robert T. Morris Jr. The perpetrator of the great Internet worm of 1988 (see {Great Worm}); villain to many, naive hacker gone wrong to a few. Morris claimed that the worm that brought the Internet to its knees was a benign experiment that got out of control as the result of a coding error. After the storm of negative publicity that followed this blunder, Morris's user name on ITS was hacked from RTM to {RTFM}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-03-31) | |
