Noter (demoscene)
A small program that displays a scrolling text note — the home-computer scene's way of sending greetings, swap lists and bragging on a floppy.
Before email, the note was the scene's letterhead. A noter (also "note maker") loads a text file and scrolls it across the screen, usually with music and a simple effect; the writer used it to thank swap partners, list wanted titles and needle rivals.
Notes rode along on copied floppies and inside diskmags, and a swapper might keep a personal signature noter to slot into everything passed on. The form was plain on purpose — the point was the words, not the effect, which set the noter apart from a lavish musicdisk. For many a scener it was their first "production".