Humma

2 definitions found

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  humma // excl. A filler word used on various `chat' and `talk' programs
     when you had nothing to say but felt that it was important to say
     something. The word apparently originated (at least with this
     definition) on the MECC Timeshare System (MTS, a now-defunct educational
     time-sharing system running in Minnesota during the 1970s and the early
     1980s) but was later sighted on early Unix systems. Compare the U.K's


     {wibble}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  humma
       
           A filler word used on various "chat" and "talk"
          programs when you had nothing to say but felt that it was
          important to say something.
       
          The word apparently originated (at least with this definition)
          on the MECC Timeshare System (MTS, a now-defunct educational
          {time-sharing} system running in Minnesota during the 1970s
          and the early 1980s) but was later sighted on early Unix
          systems.
       
          [{Jargon File}]
       
          (1999-02-27)