Phile 667187 220233764 2008-06-18T21:58:26Z Eubot 231599 Hatnote formatting, see [[User:Eubot/Hatnote formatting]] {{for|the suffix -phile|-phil-}} {{Unreferenced|date=January 2008}} '''Philes''' commonly refer to files about hacking in the days of [[Bulletin board system|BBS]]s. Ph may have been originally used as homage to the [[phone phreak|phone/phreak]]. Other common abstractions of the word are '''t-files''' (shorthand for textfiles) and '''g-files''' (general files (etymology not certain)). The use of ''ph'' in lieu of ''f'' is arbitrary. Their contents could vary from actual [[hacking]] and [[phone phreaking]], [[sex|sexual content]], [[humour]], technical information, down to [[Subversion (political)|subversive]] or so-called [[anarchist|anarchy]] material about controversial topics such as [[poison|poison brewing]], [[explosives|homemade explosives]], suggestions for making harmful [[pranks]], urban [[terrorism]] "tactics", building homemade weapons and other similar information of dubious reliability, e.g. instructions for making a [[nuclear reactor]] out of a plastic barrel to keep in one's garden. ==See also== * [[Textfiles.com]] [[Category:Bulletin board systems]] [[Category:Internet culture]] {{compu-stub}}