spod

n. (Computers) person who spends a lot of time chatting on the Internet; "geek", "nerd", person who spends most of his time using computers

For the indie/electroclash band from Sydney, Australia, see Spod (band). For the Spinning Pinwheel of Death, or Spinning Pizza of Death, see Spinning wait cursor.Spod is used to refer to a person who uses ew-too-style talkers (it is unheard of with NUTS-style talkers, which make up half of all talkers). The spod tends to be something of a long-term fanatic; many have been using the same talker for a decade or more by now. Talkers are significantly easier to run than an average MUD, since they don't incorporate very much artificial intelligence, and they are usually much more user friendly, since there is not often much fighting as a focus. In other words, whole families of husbands, wives, children, and siblings have been known to spod in certain circles. see: Talker#The culture of talkers They also use very little network traffic, and use simple protocols, making them ideal for setting up quietly at work. Some of the early Talker applications were used to play Dungeons & Dragons over computer networks.
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The spinning wait cursor is a cursor in Apple's Mac OS X that indicates an application is not responding to system events. It is similar to the "not responding" status in the Microsoft Windows task manager.The Apple Human Interface Guidelines officially refer to it as the "spinning wait cursor"; its colloquial names include "spinning pizza", "spinning pinwheel", "spinning beach ball of death", and "rainbow wheel of death". The suffix "of death" in these names is a reference to Microsoft Windows' Blue Screen of Death. The act of an application getting the spinning wait cursor is often referred to as "beachballing".
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<chat> (Great Britain) A lower form of life found on chat systems and MUDs. The spod has few friends in RL and uses chat instead, finding communication easier and preferable over the net. He has all the negative traits of the computer geek without having any interest in computers per se. Lacking any knowledge of, or interest in, how networks work, and considering his access a God-given right, he is a major irritant to sysadmins, clogging up lines in order to reach new MUDs, following passed-on instructions on how to sneak his way onto Internet ("Wow! It's in America!") and complaining when he is not allowed to use busy routes. A true spod will start any conversation with "Are you male or female?" (and follow it up with "Got any good numbers/IDs/passwords?") and will not talk to someone physically present in the same terminal room until they log onto the same computer that he is using and enter chat.
Compare newbie, tourist, weenie, twink, terminal junkie, dweeb.
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