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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