tourist n.
1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally
logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, email, games, and other trivial
purposes. One step below luser. ITS
hackers often used to spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy
with luser (this usage may also have
expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and-or
been some sort of tribute to Alan Turing). Compare twink, lurker,
read-only user. 2. [IRC]
An IRC user who goes from channel to
channel without saying anything; see channel hopping.
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tourist information n.
Information in an on-line display that is not immediately
useful, but contributes to a viewer's gestalt of what's going on
with the software or hardware behind it. Whether a given piece of
info falls in this category depends partly on what the user is
looking for at any given time. The `bytes free' information at
the bottom of an MS-DOS dir display is tourist
information; so (most of the time) is the TIME information in a
Unix ps(1) display.