The theory holds that the concept of "Real" in the BBS Scene rose from
the bestselling book "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche", published in the early
1980's. The audacity of this title, along with the easy copy-cat books
that surrounded it, are probably what led to a massive rush of textfiles
dedicated to listing or describing examples of "Real" Pirates, "Real"
Phreakers, "Real" Users, and a host of other modem personalities.
In some cases, the action gets extremely metaphysical, with a Guide to
Real Pirate's Guides, and Guides to types that no-one outside of the
author probably knew existed.
How to Be Elite, by 808 State (1991)
Anarchists: What a bunch of Pussies! By Mr. Curious
How to be an Anarchist (Probably should be REAL ANARCHISTS...)
The Real Guide to Headbangers Volume 2: By Night Hawk and Night Ranger
How to be a Computer Nerd (Also known as "REAL NERDS")
The History of Real K-K00l D00Ds by The Edge
Spotting and Killing Nerds by John Smith and Sorcerer's Apprentice
K-K00L D00Ds Volume 4, by The Radioactive Snail
What Leeches Hate about AE Sysops
The Leech Dictionary, by the Blue Buccaneer
A Lengthy Comparison of Real Users and Real Leeches
Real Losers Guide Volume 1, by The Enforcer
The Story of a REAL Real Programmer: Mel
A Couple of Real Pirates Guides
The Real Pirates Guide Volume III V.2 Written by the Whip
The Power User Guide to Power Users
The Real Pyros Guide by The Locksmith
Real Programmers Don't Eat Quiche
Real Programmers Don't Eat Quiche
Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal, by Ed Post, Tektronix
Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL, by Ed Post, Tektronix
Real Porgrammers Don't Write Specs
The Men from Mongo present Real Cyberpunks (September 24, 1991)
The Real Deversi Dial Users Guide
Real Software Engineers Don't Read Dumps
A Guide to Real Gamers, by Fritz Mertens
The Guide to Real Homosexuals/Lesbians. I Suspect Fake.
The Real Luzer's Guide, by Jimmy the Phreak
Real Programmers Write in Fortran
Real Programmers Don't Write Pascal
Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL
Real Phreaker's Guide Volume I, by Taran King
Your Guide to Real Pirates Guides
The Real Pirate's Guide, by Ctrl-Reset
The Real Pirate's Guide, by Rabid Rasta
Real Programmers Don't use Fortran!
A Real Rocker's Guide, by The Rocker
Real Computer Scientists Don't Write Code
Real Software Engineers Don't Read Dumps
Real Software Engineers Don't Read Dumps
The Code of being a Real Surfer
Real Sysops Don't Eat Quiche by Karl Kemerait and T. Badd
Real Computer Teachers, by The Joker
Real Sysops and Unreal Board Crashers, and Real BBS Users, by The Master Watchman
Real Works Users, by Jason Scott
Real Pirate's Guide, 2nd Edition
Real Pirate's Guide, 3rd Edition
Collection of Really Weird News Stories from 1976
The True Definition of a Squid
The Real "Cool Dudes" Guide, by Red Phantom