tourist
<jargon>
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]Last updated: 1995-03-10
Nearby terms:
touchpad ♦ touch screen ♦ tourist ♦ tourist information ♦ Towers of Hanoi
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