furrfu excl.
[Usenet; written, only rarely spoken] Written-only equivalent
of "Sheesh!"; it is, in fact, "sheesh" modified by rot13. Evolved in mid-1992 as a response to
notably silly postings repeating urban myths on the Usenet
newsgroup _alt.folklore.urban_, after some posters
complained that "Sheesh!" as a response to newbies was being overused. See also FOAF.
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fuzzball n.
[TCP/IP hackers] A DEC LSI-11 running a particular suite of
homebrewed software written by Dave Mills and assorted
co-conspirators, used in the early 1980s for Internet protocol
testbedding and experimentation. These were used as NSFnet
backbone sites in its early 56kb-line days; a few were still
active on the Internet as late as mid-1993, doing odd jobs such
as network time service.