See also: Philosophies
This is means to be the launching point to various other pages which discuss various acronyms and sayings.
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Related Topics
- Buzzword
- Copyright-Term-Reform/Phrases-To-Use
- Hackerspeak
- Jargon
- People And Personae
- Programming – Has a list of programming concepts
- Software – Has a list of software-related sayings
- Unix – Terms which are specific to the Unix-Like worlds.
Acronyms
- 24/7 – 24 hours per day, 7 day per week
- AFAIK – As Far As I Know
- AFK – Away From Keyboard
- ATM – At The Moment
- AYSOS – Are you stupid or something
- BOFH – Bastard Operator From Hell
- BRB – Be Right Back
- BIAB – Back In A Bit
- DIY – Do It Yourself
- FLOSS – Free Libre Open Source Software
- FUBAR – Fucked Up Beyond All Repair
- FUD – Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
- FYI – For Your Information
- GMAB – Give Me A Break
- GMTA – Great Minds Think Alike
- IANA – I Am Not A …
- IIRC – If I Recall Correctly
- IMO – In My Opinion
- IMHO – In My Humble Opinion
- IMPE – In My Personal Experience
- IRL – In Real Life
- IVL – In Virtual Life
- KISS – Keep It Simple, Stupid
- LOL – Laugh Out Loud
- MTBF – Mean Time Between Failure
- NOFI – No OFfense Intended
- NW – Name Withheld – Not committing either one’s real name or Pseudonym. Compare Anonymity.
- OMG – Oh My God
- OTOH – On The Other Hand
- PEBKAC – Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
- RL – Real Life
- RTFA – Read The Fucking Article
- RTFM – Read The Fucking Manual
- SNAFU – Situation Normal – All Fucked Up
- SOHO – Small Office, Home Office
- STFU – Shut the Fuck Up
- WTH – What The Hell
- WTF – What The Fuck
- WYSIWYG – What You See Is What You Get
- YMMV – Your Milleage May Vary
Sayings and Concepts
- Borg – To completely absorb and integrate something, often with callous disregard for the uniqueness of that something.
- Brain-Fart – A form of writer’s block which prevents a person from forming the right word or remembering their original train of thought.
- CamelNotation – Smooshing together a phrase of words and capitalising the first letter of each word. Comes from Wikis that don’t allow spaces in page names.
- Cruft – lack of maintinence
- Dangerous – Dangerous topics are those which are both discourse-wise difficult to discuss and are politically-incorrect-sounding. These topics are often at least bordering on Offensive to one of the listeners/readers.
- DOH – Exclamation of frustration.
- Fat Pipe – a fast network/internet connection
- Flamebait – Inflamatory message, sometimes with controversial ideas which some might find offensive.
- Googling – to search for something via Google.
- ^H – Used for humor, a poor-backspace character, openly illustrating a self-corrected error.
- Hacking Around – Semi-constructive play.
- Hunam – A detached reference to people in general.
- Holy Grail – Best possible scenario.
- Lag – Network slow-down
- Meatspace – The real world. Opposite of Cyberspace.
- Meh – An expression of dismissive unconcern.
- Newbie – Someone who is obviously not in the know.
- Online / Offline – status concerning availablility
- Pro-sumer – Something riding the line between the professional level and regular home user.
- Pseudonym – An alias or screen name.
- Sharpening The Saw – A form of practice by the repetition of a mostly-mastered skill.
- Train Of Thought – A line of thinking with multiple related topics.
- woot – An exclamation of joy
Un-described
- -Age
- American-Centric
- Bad Guy
- Benevolent Dictator
- Blogosphere
- Capitalization
- Cone of silence
- Cyber
- Cybercitizen
- Cyberpunk
- Cyberspace
- Evil
- Extremism
- Faux News
- Flame War
- Fleshed-Out
- Good Guy
- Idea
- Linkify
- Meme
- Merciless Refactor
- Myth
- Newschool
- Offensive
- Oldschool
- Opinion
- Pioneers
- Sophism
- Spiral of silence
- Stub
- The Wired
- Troll
- Vanguard
- Wiki Gnome
- Wikify
- Wikispace
- Wrong
- Zealotry
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