scrool

scrool

/skrool/ [The pioneering Roundtable chat system in Houstonca. 1984; probably originated as a typo for "scroll"] The logof old messages, available for later perusal or to help oneget back in synch with the conversation. It was originallycalled the "scrool monster", because an early version of theroundtable software had a bug where it would dump all 8K ofscrool on a user's terminal.