1. [ Usenet ] Read The Manual. Politer variant of RTFM .
2. Robert T. Morris Jr.
The perpetrator of the great Internet worm of 1988 (see Great Worm ); 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, Morris's user name on ITS was hacked from RTM to RTFM .
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(1995-03-31)