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| ADS | Anticompetitiveness Doesn't Sell |
ADS = Active Directory Service (Microsoft) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| AMIGA | Archaic Machine, It's Gone Away. |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett |
| AMSTRAD | Antiquated Machine Starts Trouble... Requires Another Diskdrive. |
Angela Brett, after a lady in her writing class who'd been using the same Amstrad for 10 years found that it needed a new diskdrive because it hadn't been cleaned. |
| BE | Bankrupt Enterprise |
Angela Brett Commerce:Companies |
| BETA | Begin Experimental Testing Activities |
TMcCO'G |
| BIOS | Boots In One Second |
Angela Brett (BIOS actually stands for Basic Input Output System) |
| BOS | Bat Outta Shell |
BOS = Base Operating System (IBM). The kernel of AIX and the programs that consist of a base install are included in the BOS. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| BRYCE | Build, Render - You've Created Environment! |
Angela Brett (Bryce is a 3D landscaping and animation application... see http://corel.com) |
| BSD | Best System Design |
Sean Lamb (BSD = Berkeley Software Distribution; a flavor of UNIX written by UC Berkeley that is the basis for FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD among others) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| BUGS | Blight 'Usually Good' Software |
Angela Brett |
| BYTE | Bitwise, You Take Eight. |
Angela Brett |
| CNE | Can't Network Everything |
CNE's real definition is Certified Netware Engineer Re-expansions of existing acronyms Education:Qualifications |
| COMPUTER | Crashes Or Mangles Programs Until Technician Emolument Received |
Rico Leffanta |
| DEN | Doesn't Even Network |
DEN = Directory-Enabled Networking (Microsoft) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| DOORS | Decently Organized Operating & Running Systems! |
Tony McCoy O'Grady, who asks "Why use windoze when you can use doors?" |
| ENCRYPTION | Each New Code Requires Your Powers To Interpret Others' Notes. |
Angela Brett Science:Mathematics |
| EULA | Extremely Unappealing License Agreement |
EULA = End User License Agreement (Microsoft) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| FILE | For Indicating Length - EOF. |
Angela Brett |
| FLECK | Fewer Lines Equals Conserved Kilobytes |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| GEEK | Gathers Esoteric, Encyclopaedic Knowledge |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GEEKY | Go Electronic - Everyone Knows You |
Angela Brett People & Relationships:Personality Traits |
| GIGABYTES | Gosh, Information Galore! And Building Yearly... Terabytes Emerging Soon. |
Angela Brett |
| GNU | Good News, Usually |
Steve Keate (GNU actually stands for 'Gnu's Not Unix' and is a project by the free software foundation to make a free alternative to Unix.) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| GRAPHICS | Globally Recognised Artwork Perhaps Had Initial Computer Sketch |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Art & Literature |
| GUICIDE | Graphical User Interface Crashed... Instant Disaster Ensued! |
Angela Brett, pondering whether deinstalling a GUI (Graphical User Interface) would be committing 'guicide' Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| HELPDESK | "Hello... Eh? Lifeless PC? Depress Electricity Switch."-- Knowall |
Angela Brett |
| HEWLETT-PACKARD | Have Employed Wozniak - Looked Encouragingly Toward The Prototype Apple, Couldn't Know About Resulting Disadvantage. |
Angela Brett, since Steve Wozniak was working at Hewlett-Packard when he designed the Apple I, but luckily HP weren't interested in selling computers at that time so they didn't claim it as their own. Commerce:Companies |
| IBM | Incredibly Bad Machine |
Gavin Shapiro Re-expansions of existing acronyms Commerce:Companies |
| ICON | It's Clicked On Needlessly |
Apronymous Anonymous |
| IDOC | Individuals Dependent On Computers |
Stan Cheney, explaining: We are starting a new organization or movement called "Individuals Dependent On Computers" or IDOC (pronounced: "Idiocy") |
| INFORMATICS | I Need Find Out / Research - Maybe Automatically - Topics In Computer System |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Science |
| INTEL | Invest Nothing, They'll Eventually Lose. |
Angela Brett, after Steve said that he wouldn't invest any money in Intel because he doesn't think they innovate any more. Commerce:Companies |
| IOMEGA | I Own Marvellous External Gigabyte Accessory. |
Angela Brett Commerce:Companies |
| IS | Implies Status |
Edwin Hermann, referring to the usual meaning of IS, Information Systems. Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| JPEG | Juxtapositioned Pixels Emulate Graphics |
Sean Lamb (JPEG = Joint Photographic Experts Group) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| KILOBYTES | Keyboard Informs Logicboard Of Blurb You Type - Easily Stored! |
Angela Brett |
| LOCKUP | Lets Our Computer Keep Unreal Pauses |
Rico Leffanta |
| MAINFRAME | Machine Adds Immense Numbers For Researchers - Absorbs Much Electricity |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| MATLAB | Mathematical Algorithms Take Little Actual Brainpower. |
Angela Brett (MATLAB is a mathematics software package) Computers:Macintosh & Newton:Software:Applications |
| NAPSTER | Nasty American Pop-System Took Extreme Revenge |
Tony McCoy O'Grady Entertainment:Music |
| NCR | Not Completely Reliable |
Tiny Lee (NCR usually stands for National Cash Register) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Commerce:Companies |
| NEC | Not Enough Components |
Tiny Lee (NEC usually stands for Nippon Equipment Corporation) Re-expansions of existing acronyms Commerce:Companies |
| OCR | 'Ow Computers Read |
Angela Brett (OCR usually stands for Optical Character Recognition) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| OFFICE | Obfuscated File Format Is Common Everywhere |
Sean Lamb (even though the data format of MS-Office documents is exceptionally hidden, they have become a de-facto standard) |
| PARSER | Programmed Algorithm Reading Sentences, Expressions, Runes |
Gavin Lambert |
| PASSWORD | Pick Alphanumeric Symbols, Sans Words Of Reputable Dictionaries. |
Angela Brett |
| PASTE | Pictures And Simple Text Entered |
Tony McCoy O'Grady |
| PDA | Pointer Directs Actions |
Tony McCoy O'Grady (PDA usually stands for Personal Digital Assistant) Re-expansions of existing acronyms |
| PROMPT | Print Request On Monitor - Please Type! |
Angela Brett |
| PUFFIN | Power Users Find Files In Networks |
Sean Lamb (Puffin is Google's code word for their new desktop file search utility) Names:Code Names |
| SETUP | Something Easy To Understand, Please! |
Angela Brett |
| SISADMIN | Server Installer Shares Author's DNA, Mitochondrially Identical Network |
Angela Brett -- A sisadmin is a sister who is also a sysadmin (which is a common abbreviation for system administrator.) Words & Wordplay:Made Up Words |
| SOFTWARE | Something Often Found To Worry A Rookie Enthusiast |
Angela Brett |
| SPARC | Sun's Particularly Amazing Research Creation |
Steve Keate and Angela Brett |
| STUFFED | Standard Technical User Fully Frank Error Description |
Dave Parlett, explaining the technical term in the phrase, 'your PC is stuffed.' |
| THANKS! | This Has Angela Nearly Kissing Steve! |
Angela Brett, when Steve Wozniak bought her an iBook to replace her lost PowerBook 1400cs (see RANSOM) |
| UNIX | University Networks Interoperate Xceptionally |
Sean Lamb (who learned to use UNIX in a university setting) |
| VIRUS | Violates Information, Ruthlessly Uses Space |
Angela Brett |
| VOCODERS | Voice Of Computer's Often Deliberately Extra Robotic Sounding |
Angela Brett (thinking of the Macintalk voices Votron, Trinoids and Zarvox in particular) |