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The set-up line for a genre of one-liners told by hackers about themselves. These include the following * ... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION

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hop

n. One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network. On such networks (including UUCPNET and FidoNet), the important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path between them, rather than their geographical separation. See bang path.