GREAT WORM

Domain	Definition
Computing	Great Worm n. The 1988 Internet worm perpetrated by RTM. This is a play on Tolkien (compare elvish, elder days). In the fantasy history of his Middle Earth books, there were dragons powerful enough to lay waste to entire regions; two of these (Scatha and Glaurung) were known as "the Great Worms". This usage expresses the connotation that the RTM crack was a sort of devastating watershed event in hacker history; certainly it did more to make non-hackers nervous about the Internet than anything before or since. Source: Jargon File.
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Anagrams: GREAT WORM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-m-o-r-r-t-w"
	-2 letters: earworm, garrote, ragwort.
	-3 letters: garote, garret, garter, grater, grower, marrow, mortar, orgeat, regrow, remora, rewarm, roamer, termor, towage, tremor, warmer, womera, wormer.
	-4 letters: amort, argot, armer, armet, armor, arrow, ergot, gamer, gator, gemot, grate, great, groat, magot, marge, mater, metro, morae, mower, oater, omega, orate, ormer, ramet, rater, rawer, rearm, regma, retag, retro.
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