Quick Question : Where the word "flame" originate ?

I am talking about flame as in " stop flaming me " especially where threads are concerned.

Mods : this is not a pun on locked threads I honestly want to know where the word came from :)

flame



1. vi. To post an email message intended to insult and provoke.

2. vi. To speak incessantly and/or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude.

3. vt. Either of senses 1 or 2, directed with hostility at a particular person or people.

4. n. An instance of flaming. When a discussion degenerates into useless controversy, one might tell the participants “Now you're just flaming” or “Stop all that flamage!” to try to get them to cool down (so to speak).

The term may have been independently invented at several different places. It has been reported from MIT, Carleton College and RPI (among many other places) from as far back as 1969, and from the University of Virginia in the early 1960s.

It is possible that the hackish sense of ‘flame’ is much older than that. The poet Chaucer was also what passed for a wizard hacker in his time; he wrote a treatise on the astrolabe, the most advanced computing device of the day. In Chaucer's Troilus and Cressida, Cressida laments her inability to grasp the proof of a particular mathematical theorem; her uncle Pandarus then observes that it's called “the fleminge of wrecches.” This phrase seems to have been intended in context as “that which puts the wretches to flight” but was probably just as ambiguous in Middle English as “the flaming of wretches” would be today. One suspects that Chaucer would feel right at home on Usenet.

http://catb.org/jargon/html/F/flame.html

The term "hackish" means "of or related to a hacker," which in this usage does not mean someone who commits computer crime, but rather a person who lives, drinks and breathes computer programming.

:hi:

Good morning billyskank. :hug: How are you today?

Hi BnL! Nice to see you! :hug: I have a slight headache, but apart from that I'm ok. How are you? :hi:

I have a slight headache myself. I'm ok, thanks for asking. :loveya:

"Ug! Flame! Ug want flame! Flame Ug!"

Of course, 100,000 years later and "flame" has a new, not so desirable meaning...
:yoiks:

Main Entry: in·flam·ma·to·ry
Pronunciation: in-'fla-m&-"tor-E
Function: adjective
1: tending to excite anger, disorder, or tumult : SEDITIOUS
2: tending to inflame or excite the senses
3: accompanied by or tending to cause inflammation
- in·flam·ma·to·ri·ly /-"fla-m&-'tor-&-lE/ adverb

; (n.) ME flaume < AF, var. of flaumbe; OF flambe, earlier flamble < L flammula, dim. of flamma flame (see -ule); (v.) ME flaumen < AF flaum(b)er; OF flamber < L flammāre, deriv. of flamma]

morphed into this



and this is just gratuitous