scrool

/skrool/ [The pioneering Roundtable chat system in Houston

ca. 1984; probably originated as a typo for "scroll"] The log

of old messages, available for later perusal or to help one

get back in synch with the conversation. It was originally

called the "scrool monster", because an early version of the

roundtable software had a bug where it would dump all 8K of

scrool on a user's terminal.

[Jargon File]