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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