humma

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humma - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  humma
  
     <chat> 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)