A person who is not skilled, not cool, and not welcome — a lamer — as the BBS era's word for it, which preceded 'noob' by a decade and was used by the cracking and demo scene to mean 'not one of us'. The record's entry for the insult of the modem age.
Working definition, for the file: Lamer is what you call it once you have seen it three times in one day and twice from people who should know better.
Died around 2003 when 'noob' took its job. The record notes 'lamer' appears in the credits of thousands of 1990s cracked games — 'greetings to all, except lamers' — and that the lamers have never been identified.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
