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From: jkeroes@reed.edu (spork de plastique)
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.2600
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Subject: meaning of k-rad
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Date: 11 Nov 1994 12:55:48 GMT
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Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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What does the "k" of k-rad stand for?
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kilo-rad? (like 1000x as rad....)
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kevin mitnick-rad? (heh)
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kracked-rad (for all the warez d00ds out there)
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I just don't get it. Anyone?
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-ua
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From: Tim Downey <tdowney@morpheus.hartford.edu>
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.2600
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: 11 Nov 1994 16:38:18 GMT
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Organization: The University of Hartford
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> What does the "k" of k-rad stand for?
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The 'k' is as in kilobytes. It's warez-speak.
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-twotone
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From: ah9531@albnyvms.bitnet
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.2600
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: 12 Nov 1994 20:57:20 GMT
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Organization: University of Albany, SUNY
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In article <3a06lq$q38@ipgate.hartford.edu>, Tim Downey <tdowney@morpheus.hartford.edu> writes:
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>> What does the "k" of k-rad stand for?
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>The 'k' is as in kilobytes. It's warez-speak.
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>-twotone
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Sorry.. Actually, there was a magazine a number of yrs ago.. (forgot the name)
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.. but anyway, they started using thinkgs like "k-kool" and such... this was a
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paper mag, around '84'85 .. and it just kinda stuck.. it was more used as mebbe
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c=64 warez ppl..
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From: grk2237@ACFcluster.nyu.edu (Glenn Kurtzrock -- SPE NY Gamma)
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.2600,alt.fan.cult-dead-cow
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: 12 Nov 1994 01:20:24 GMT
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Organization: New York University, New York, NY
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In article <39vpkk$oeq@scratchy.reed.edu>, jkeroes@reed.edu (spork de plastique) writes:
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>What does the "k" of k-rad stand for?
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>kilo-rad? (like 1000x as rad....)
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>kevin mitnick-rad? (heh)
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>kracked-rad (for all the warez d00ds out there)
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>I just don't get it. Anyone?
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>-ua
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I would assume it's it's just a cross-over from the k in k-k00l. Then again,
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probably not. Then again, who gives a flying fuck about the etymology of a word
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like k-rad?
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_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/ | Glenn Kurtzrock
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_/ _/ _/ | grk2237@acfcluster.nyu.edu
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_/ _/_/_/ _/ | SPE NY Gamma FPC '93
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_/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ | CR # 659
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_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/_/_/_/_/_/ | VDBL - Words to live by!
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.2600,alt.fan.cult-dead-cow
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From: tward@wybbs.mi.org (Thad Ward)
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Organization: Consultants Connection
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 02:20:36 GMT
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Message-ID: <CzE3uE.GA3@wybbs.mi.org>
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grk2237@ACFcluster.nyu.edu (Glenn Kurtzrock -- SPE NY Gamma) writes:
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>In article <39vpkk$oeq@scratchy.reed.edu>, jkeroes@reed.edu (spork de plastique) writes:
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>>What does the "k" of k-rad stand for?
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>>kilo-rad? (like 1000x as rad....)
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>>kevin mitnick-rad? (heh)
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>>kracked-rad (for all the warez d00ds out there)
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>>I just don't get it. Anyone?
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>>-ua
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>I would assume it's it's just a cross-over from the k in k-k00l. Then again,
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>probably not. Then again, who gives a flying fuck about the etymology of a word
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i was told that i was kinda like k-mart (not a good store)
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k-rad: not rad
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Thad Ward
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tward@wybbs.mi.org
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tward@grfn.org
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From: inaba@primenet.com (Inaba, the Dream Maker)
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.2600
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 14:59:46 MST
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Organization: Primenet
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In article <39vpkk$oeq@scratchy.reed.edu> jkeroes@reed.edu (spork de plastique) writes:
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>From: jkeroes@reed.edu (spork de plastique)
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>Subject: meaning of k-rad
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>Date: 11 Nov 1994 12:55:48 GMT
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>What does the "k" of k-rad stand for?
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>kilo-rad? (like 1000x as rad....)
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>kevin mitnick-rad? (heh)
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>kracked-rad (for all the warez d00ds out there)
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>I just don't get it. Anyone?
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>-ua
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<Picking up my cane and spectacles. Inserting false teeth>
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Well, shonny... back in my day, the 'k' in k-rad stood for 'kewl' . As in
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"Kewl-rad".
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We used it to describe new software that was released. eg. "How's the new
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game." "It's f*cking k-rad, dude!"
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etc... You could put 'k' infront of just about everything.
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From: Chandler <jared.chandler@alaska.net>
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.2600
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: 15 Nov 1994 01:28:28 GMT
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Organization: Hidden Power Elite
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X-XXDate: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 16:47:01 GMT
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In article <inaba.3.0021FE2E@primenet.com> Inaba, inaba@primenet.com
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Well, as far as I know, 'K-Rad Kouriers' was the company of one of the
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main characters in Neal Stephanson's -SNOW CRASH-... If thats just
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conincidence.. well...
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From: toastman@armory.com (Powdered Toast Man)
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.2600
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: 13 Nov 1994 21:00:59 GMT
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Organization: The Armory
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In article <39vpkk$oeq@scratchy.reed.edu>,
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spork de plastique <jkeroes@reed.edu> wrote:
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>What does the "k" of k-rad stand for?
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>kilo-rad? (like 1000x as rad....)
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That's what they told me on IRC.
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>kracked-rad (for all the warez d00ds out there)
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>I just don't get it. Anyone?
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The only time I['ve heard of it was to make fun of warez doodz... in that
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people who use "k-rad" are lame... so in the back of my mind I thought that
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k-rad was some marketing scheme by K-Mart in the early eighties that I was too
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young to remember.
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From: john@linux.reshall.umich.edu (John Gotts)
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.2600
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Followup-To: news.newusers.questions,alt.2600
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Date: 13 Nov 1994 23:17:51 GMT
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The expression 'k-rad' has been around at least since 1988. I don't think that
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the 'k' has any particular meaning except to aid in making cryptic ASCII-ed
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bastardizations of the English language like:
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/<-R@[) [)00[)
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It doesn't surprise me that this is popular again, considering back in the good
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old days the real hackers laughed at people who did this. Hacking has changed.
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From: anarch@cse.ucsc.edu (Anarch)
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions,alt.2600
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: 14 Nov 1994 04:18:42 GMT
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john@linux.reshall.umich.edu (John Gotts) wrote:
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>The expression 'k-rad' has been around at least since 1988...
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>It doesn't surprise me that this is popular again, considering back in the good
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>old days the real hackers laughed at people who did this. Hacking has changed.
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No, real hackers *still* laugh at people who do this.
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I think all the 'k-rad's that you see around here are jokes. I *hope*
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so, anyway.
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Message-ID: <1994Nov14.004517.33856@miavx1>
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From: atporter@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu (Aaron Porter)
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Date: 14 Nov 94 00:45:17 -0500
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Anarch (anarch@cse.ucsc.edu) wrote:
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: john@linux.reshall.umich.edu (John Gotts) wrote:
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: >The expression 'k-rad' has been around at least since 1988...
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: >It doesn't surprise me that this is popular again, considering back in the good
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: >old days the real hackers laughed at people who did this. Hacking has changed.
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: No, real hackers *still* laugh at people who do this.
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: I think all the 'k-rad's that you see around here are jokes. I *hope*
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: so, anyway.
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K-Rad has been arround forever. Mainly came up in my experience
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with Apple // warez traders. At that point it was a compliment, or an
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endorsement (ie. "The Pirate's Pit is k-rad man.") But more recently,
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I'd say 91 or so, it was used to describe hte 'lamers' 'rodents' and
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other 'elite' annoyances. Now you only see k-rad on renegade boards
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where 90% of the users have high-ASCII in their handles.
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From: daemon@news.internet-eireann.ie (Owner of many system processes)
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Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: 16 Nov 1994 17:30:30 -0000
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In article <1994Nov14.004517.33856@miavx1> atporter@nextsrv.cas.muohio.edu writes:
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>I'd say 91 or so, it was used to describe hte 'lamers' 'rodents' and
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>other 'elite' annoyances. Now you only see k-rad on renegade boards
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>where 90% of the users have high-ASCII in their handles.
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Now we can them quote their favourite Beavis and Butthead comments in
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high-ASCII, doubling the annoyance.
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I tHiNk MoSt Of ThEm NeEd To GeT tHeIr KeYbOaRdS fIxEd.
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From: jmiller@terra.colostate.edu (Jeff Miller)
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 09:44:42 UNDEFINED
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Ok, here's the real story (I hope)...
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In the apple "scene" there was a group called MPG (Midwest Pirates Guild).
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One of the members of that group (who's handle I forget) used to talk really
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quick, and instead of saying stuff like "Ok, cool", he'd say, "'K, Cool".
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From: prig0011@gold.tc.umn.edu (Kevin L Prigge)
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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>In the apple "scene" there was a group called MPG (Midwest Pirates Guild).
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>One of the members of that group (who's handle I forget) used to talk really
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>quick, and instead of saying stuff like "Ok, cool", he'd say, "'K, Cool".
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>Thus begat "k-cool", which later spawned into "k-rad", "k-k00l", etc.
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That would have been Apple Bandit, sysop of The Safehouse.
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From: t8c192@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Michael Angelo Relova)
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: 16 Nov 1994 23:50:14 GMT
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In <CzDAF4.AKD@news.cis.umn.edu> prig0011@gold.tc.umn.edu (Kevin L Prigge) writes:
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>In article <jmiller.120.1334FB55@terra.colostate.edu>,
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>Jeff Miller <jmiller@terra.colostate.edu> wrote:
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>>Ok, here's the real story (I hope)...
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>>In the apple "scene" there was a group called MPG (Midwest Pirates Guild).
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>>One of the members of that group (who's handle I forget) used to talk really
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>>quick, and instead of saying stuff like "Ok, cool", he'd say, "'K, Cool".
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>>Thus begat "k-cool", which later spawned into "k-rad", "k-k00l", etc.
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I think k-cool also meant kilo-cool or 1,000 times cool.
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From: rhsiung@kaiwan.com (Richard Hsiung)
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: 14 Nov 1994 14:27:49 -0800
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In article <3a66qv$ett@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>,
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john@linux.reshall.umich.edu (John Gotts) wrote:
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> The expression 'k-rad' has been around at least since 1988. I don't think that
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> the 'k' has any particular meaning except to aid in making cryptic ASCII-ed
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It's been around a lot longer than 1988... I remember even back in
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'82 when k-rad/k00l/etc was considered rodent speak. Hmm.. maybe
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it had a lot to do with the /<-/<o0l spinning cursor days of
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cat-fer boards.
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From: spaaron@sgife7.sdrc.com (Arron Saarela)
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: 15 Nov 1994 16:12:03 GMT
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In article <NVznkCO9a5r2073yn@kaiwan.com>,
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>In article <3a66qv$ett@srvr1.engin.umich.edu>,
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>john@linux.reshall.umich.edu (John Gotts) wrote:
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>> The expression 'k-rad' has been around at least since 1988. I don't think that
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>> the 'k' has any particular meaning except to aid in making cryptic ASCII-ed
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>It's been around a lot longer than 1988... I remember even back in
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>'82 when k-rad/k00l/etc was considered rodent speak. Hmm.. maybe
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I was under the impression that the K-rad movement started out on the
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C-64 boards. In any respect, that's where I had seen it back in the early
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eighties. I remember that k-rad popping up on AII's and such, and people
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screaming for those to go back to there "Ultra k-rad k00l Commie B0rds"
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From: dogcow@ccs.neu.edu (Tom 'moof' Spindler)
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: 17 Nov 1994 07:02:15 GMT
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>> The expression 'k-rad' has been around at least since 1988. I don't think that
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>> the 'k' has any particular meaning except to aid in making cryptic ASCII-ed
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>It's been around a lot longer than 1988... I remember even back in
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>'82 when k-rad/k00l/etc was considered rodent speak. Hmm.. maybe
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>it had a lot to do with the /<-/<o0l spinning cursor days of
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>cat-fer boards.
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Ah, cat-fur and elite NetWorks! 99e99! I seem to remember having
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somewhere at home on my //e a file circa '83 that listed all the "D000D"
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speak. I believe their examples of usage for K- were K-K000L, K-RAD,
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K-MART.
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Wish I had a serial card for the //e or a floppy drive for my mac so I
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could archive all the elite docfiles.
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From: Matthew@Fallon.com (Matthew Dornquast)
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 17:48:28 -0600
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In article <39vpkk$oeq@scratchy.reed.edu>, jkeroes@reed.edu (spork de
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plastique) asked:
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> What does the "k" of k-rad stand for?
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Jeff Miller's reply came the closest to reality thus far, writing:
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>In the apple "scene" there was a group called MPG (Midwest Pirates Guild).
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>One of the members of that group (who's handle I forget) used to talk really
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>quick, and instead of saying stuff like "Ok, cool", he'd say, "'K, Cool".
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>Thus begat "k-cool", which later spawned into "k-rad", "k-k00l", etc.
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Where do I come in? Well, I'm one of the original 4 MPG members. And
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yes, we did start the K-craze (Spontaneously without inspiration from
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outside sources)
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Disclaimer: It started spontaneously for us in 1982, it certainly could
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have elsewhere at any time.
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No, it didn't come from K as in Kilobytes. The "K" concept originated
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from our style of saying "Okay, bye" on the phone. One late night in a
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hurry to hack the latest ware before anyone else did, we hung up with a
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"k-bye". It just happened, without thinking. It sounded cool.
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(Back then, we were on the phoen A LOT. Folks called all the time.
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Wanting BBS access, software, etc. We tended to work while we talked,
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stream of conciousness kinda stuff.)
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We hung out, ate pizza, cracked warez. I believe Sinbad (one of the 4)
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was the first to go "k-cool" dude. It sounded Kool. From there we all
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went nuts. For months it was K-this, K-that, we made ourselves
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sick--Eventually settling down to our original K-cool & K-bye.
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We had several BBSs. The most popular and well known was the Safehouse.
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It wasn't surprising how it spread. We had over 10,000 users on our
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systems combined and habitually wrote "kbye" and "k-cool" on our
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messages. Heck, I think we even put it on a few title pages.
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(Those pages designating who hacked the software)
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Anyway, for what it's worth, that's how it started for us. I find it
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funny that folks use it in the "k/thousands" sense. It makes sense,
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though we never thought of it in that way ourselves. So in a way, I'm
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sure many contributed.
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Hope that helps. More than you wanted to know eh?
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From: lkench@saucer.cc.umr.edu (Lawrence Kenchel)
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: 16 Nov 1994 18:11:09 GMT
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: > What does the "k" of k-rad stand for?
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I also vaugely remeber a section of FAmily Computing that was really lame
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on yellow pages they called K-Rad I think. I think it used to be a
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separate magazine but again, it was really lame...oh well...interesting
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real story behind it though...
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From: marauder@lod.amaranth.com (The Marauder)
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Subject: Re: meaning of k-rad
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Date: 18 Nov 1994 20:47:07 -0600
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Matthew Dornquast (Matthew@Fallon.com) wrote:
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: > What does the "k" of k-rad stand for?
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: Jeff Miller's reply came the closest to reality thus far, writing:
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: >In the apple "scene" there was a group called MPG (Midwest Pirates Guild).
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: >One of the members of that group (who's handle I forget) used to talk really
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: >quick, and instead of saying stuff like "Ok, cool", he'd say, "'K, Cool".
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: >Thus begat "k-cool", which later spawned into "k-rad", "k-k00l", etc.
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: Disclaimer: It started spontaneously for us in 1982, it certainly could
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: have elsewhere at any time.
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: Wanting BBS access, software, etc. We tended to work while we talked,
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: stream of conciousness kinda stuff.)
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: We hung out, ate pizza, cracked warez. I believe Sinbad (one of the 4)
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: was the first to go "k-cool" dude. It sounded Kool. From there we all
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: went nuts. For months it was K-this, K-that, we made ourselves
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: sick--Eventually settling down to our original K-cool & K-bye.
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: We had several BBSs. The most popular and well known was the Safehouse.
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: It wasn't surprising how it spread. We had over 10,000 users on our
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: systems combined and habitually wrote "kbye" and "k-cool" on our
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: messages. Heck, I think we even put it on a few title pages.
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: (Those pages designating who hacked the software)
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: Anyway, for what it's worth, that's how it started for us. I find it
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: funny that folks use it in the "k/thousands" sense. It makes sense,
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: though we never thought of it in that way ourselves. So in a way, I'm
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: sure many contributed.
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: Hope that helps. More than you wanted to know eh?
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: -Matthew (Mini Appler)
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This is exactly where I remember seeing it appear.. and eventually it became
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used as way to sarcastically mock rodents..
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btw, Matthew, I still have a copy of "Delightful Dialer" ;)
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Marauder
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