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From http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/gweep.html: gweep: /gweep/ 1. v. To hack, usually at night. At WPI, from 1975 onwards, one who gweeped could often be found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the PDP-10 or, later, the DEC-20. A correspondent who was there at the time opines that the term was originally onomatopoetic, describing the keyclick sound of the Datapoint terminals long connected to the PDP-10; others allege that �gweep� was the sound of the Datapoint's bell (compare feep). The term has survived the demise of those technologies, however, and was still alive in early 1999. �I'm going to go gweep for a while. See you in the morning.� �I gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week.�

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rdfs:label	Gweep
rdfs:comment	From <a href="http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/gweep.html:">http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/gweep.html:</a> gweep: /gweep/ 1. v. To hack, usually at night. At WPI, from 1975 onwards, one who gweeped could often be found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the PDP-10 or, later, the DEC-20. A correspondent who was there at the time opines that the term was originally onomatopoetic, describing the keyclick sound of the Datapoint terminals long connected to the PDP-10; others allege that �gweep� was the sound of the Datapoint's bell (compare feep). The term has survived the demise of those technologies, however, and was still alive in early 1999. �I'm going to go gweep for a while. See you in the morning.� �I gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week.�
dcterms:subject	WPI Vocabulary WPI Culture
abstract	From <a href="http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/gweep.html:">http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/gweep.html:</a> gweep: /gweep/ 1. v. To hack, usually at night. At WPI, from 1975 onwards, one who gweeped could often be found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing the PDP-10 or, later, the DEC-20. A correspondent who was there at the time opines that the term was originally onomatopoetic, describing the keyclick sound of the Datapoint terminals long connected to the PDP-10; others allege that �gweep� was the sound of the Datapoint's bell (compare feep). The term has survived the demise of those technologies, however, and was still alive in early 1999. �I'm going to go gweep for a while. See you in the morning.� �I gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week.� 2. n. One who habitually gweeps in sense 1; a hacker. �He's a hard-core gweep, mumbles code in his sleep.� Around 1979 this was considered derogatory and not used in self-reference; it has since been proudly claimed in much the same way as geek.

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