Editing Lamer (section)

==Origin==
At least one example of the term "lamer" to mean "a dull, stupid, inept, or contemptible person" appeared as early as 1961.<ref>"Lamer". [http://www.oed.com/ The Oxford English Dictionary], March 2014.</ref> It was popularized among Amiga crackers of the mid-1980s by "[[Lamer Exterminator]]", a notable Amiga virus, which gradually corrupted non-write-protected floppy disks with bad sectors. The bad sectors, when examined, were overwritten with repetitions of the string "LAMER!".<ref>[http://catb.org/jargon/html/index.html The Jargon File]</ref>

In [[phreak]] culture, a lamer is one who scams codes from others and lacks understanding of the fundamental concepts. In [[warez]] culture, where the ability to distribute cracked commercial software within days of (or before) release to the commercial market is much esteemed, the lamer might try to upload garbage, shareware, or outdated releases.