RTM

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:RTM: /R-T-M/ [Usenet: abbreviation for Read The Manual] 1. Politer variant of RTFM. 2. Robert T. Morris, perpetrator of the great Internet worm of 1988 (see Great Worm, the); villain to many, naive hacker gone wrong to a few. Morris claimed that the worm that brought the Internet to its knees was a benign experiment that got out of control as the result of a coding error. After the storm of negative publicity that followed this blunder, Morriss username on ITS was hacked from RTM to RTFM.
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