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AEAP – As Early As Possible
ALAP – As Late As Possible
AWGTHTGTTA – Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again
B4YKI – Before You Know It
BRB – Be Right Back
BRT – Be Right There
CWYL – Chat With You Later
C-P – Sleepy
CYT – See You Tomorrow
E123 – Easy as One, Two, Three
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100 parents need to know
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8 - Oral sex
1337 - Elite -or- leet -or- L337
143 - I love you
182 - I hate you
1174 - Nude club
420 - Marijuana
459 - I love you
ADR - Address
AEAP - As Early As Possible
ALAP - As Late As Possible
ASL - Age/Sex/Location
CD9 - Code 9 - it means parents are around
C-P - Sleepy
F2F - Face-to-Face
GNOC - Get Naked On Cam
GYPO - Get Your Pants Off
HAK - Hugs And Kisses
ILU - I Love You
IWSN - I Want Sex Now
J/O - Jerking Off
KOTL - Kiss On The Lips
KFY -or- K4Y - Kiss For You
KPC - Keeping Parents Clueless
LMIRL - Let's Meet In Real Life
MOOS - Member Of The Opposite Sex
MOSS - Member(s) Of The Same Sex
MorF - Male or Female
MOS - Mom Over Shoulder
MPFB - My Personal F*** Buddy
NALOPKT - Not A Lot Of People Know That
NIFOC - Nude In Front Of The Computer
NMU - Not Much, You?
P911 - Parent Alert
PAL - Parents Are Listening
PAW - Parents Are Watching
PIR - Parent In Room
POS - Parent Over Shoulder -or- Piece Of Sh**
pron - porn
Q2C - Quick To Cum
RU/18 - Are You Over 18?
RUMORF - Are You Male OR Female?
RUH - Are You Horny?
S2R - Send To Receive
SorG - Straight or Gay
TDTM - Talk Dirty To Me
WTF - What The F***
WUF - Where You From
WYCM - Will You Call Me?
WYRN - What's Your Real Name?
zerg - To gang up on someone
2nite - Tonight
AWGTHTGTTA - Are We Going To Have To Go Through This Again
banana - code word for penis
B4YKI - Before You Know It
BRB - Be Right Back
BRT - Be Right There
CWYL - Chat With You Later
CYT - See You Tomorrow
DIAF - Die In A Fire
DOC - Drug Of Choice
E123 - Easy as One, Two, Three
EM - Excuse Me
EOD - End Of Day -or- End Of Discussion
FAH - F***ing A Hot
FB - F*** Buddy -or- FaceBook
FOAF - Friend Of A Friend
GLBT - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender - also seen as LBGT
HBU - How Bout You?
HUYA - Head Up Your Ass
I&I - Intercourse & Inebriation
IDGI - I Don't Get It -or- I Don't Get Involved
IMEZRU - I Am Easy, Are You?
IMNSHO - In My Not So Humble Opinion
J/C - Just Checking
kitty - code word for vagina
L8R - Later
LD - Long Distance -or- Later Dude
LMK - Let Me Know
LOL - Laughing Out Loud -or- Lots Of Love
N-A-Y-L - In A While
NAZ - Name, Address, Zip (also means Nasdaq)
NM - Never Mind -or- Nothing Much -or- Nice Move
OLL - OnLine Love
OMW - On My Way
OTP - On The Phone
QT - Cutie
RN - Right Now
ROTFL - Rolling On The Floor Laughing
RU - Are You?
SITD - Still In The Dark
SMEM - Send Me E-Mail
SMIM - Send Me an Instant Message
SO - Significant Other
SOHF - Sense Of Humor Failure
SWDYT - So What Do You Think?
TOM - Tomorrow
TS - Tough Sh** -or- Totally Stinks
TTFN - Ta Ta For Now
ur - you are
WFM - Works For Me
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2moro - Tomorrow
2nite - Tonight
BRB - Be Right Back
BTW - By The Way
B4N - Bye For Now
BCNU - Be Seeing You
BFF - Best Friends Forever
CYA - Cover Your Ass -or- See Ya
DBEYR - Don't Believe Everything You Read
DILLIGAS - Do I Look Like I Give A Sh**
FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinformation
FWIW - For What It's Worth
GR8 - Great
ILY - I Love You
IMHO - In My Humble Opinion
IRL - In Real Life
ISO - In Search Of
J/K - Just Kidding
L8R - Later
LMAO - Laughing My Ass Off
LOL - Laughing Out Loud -or- Lots Of Love
LYLAS - Love You Like A Sister
MHOTY - My Hat's Off To You
NIMBY - Not In My Back Yard
NP - No Problem -or- Nosy Parents
NUB - New person to a site or game
OIC - Oh, I See
OMG - Oh My God
OT - Off Topic
POV - Point Of View
RBTL - Read Between The Lines
ROTFLMAO - Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
RT - Real Time
THX or TX or THKS - Thanks
SH - Sh** Happens
SITD - Still In The Dark
SOL - Sh** Out of Luck
STBY - Sucks To Be You
SWAK - Sealed (or Sent) With A Kiss
TFH - Thread From Hell
RTM or RTFM - Read The Manual -or- Read The F***ing Manual
TLC - Tender Loving Care
TMI - Too Much Information
TTYL - Talk To You Later -or- Type To You Later
TYVM - Thank You Very Much
VBG - Very Big Grin
WEG - Wicked Evil Grin
WTF - What The F***
WYWH - Wish You Were Here
XOXO - Hugs and Kisses
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50 in Business
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AFAIC - As Far As I'm Concerned
ASAP - As Soon As Possible
BHAG - Big Hairy Audacious Goal
BOHICA - Bend Over Here It Comes Again
CLM - Career Limiting Move
CYA - Cover Your Ass -or- See Ya
DD - Due Diligence
DQYDJ - Don't Quit Your Day Job
DRIB - Don't Read If Busy
EOD - End Of Day -or- End Of Discussion
EOM - End Of Message
EOT - End Of Thread (meaning: end of discussion)
ESO - Equipment Smarter than Operator
FRED - F***ing Ridiculous Electronic Device
FUBAR - F***ed Up Beyond All Recognition (or Repair)
FYI - For Your Information
GMTA - Great Minds Think Alike
HIOOC - Help, I'm Out Of Coffee
IAITS - It's All In The Subject
IANAL - I Am Not A Lawyer
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid
LOPSOD - Long On Promises, Short On Delivery
MOTD - Message Of The Day
MTFBWY - May The Force Be With You
MYOB - Mind Your Own Business
NRN - No Reply Necessary
NSFW - Not Safe For Work
NWR - Not Work Related
OTP - On The Phone
P&C - Private & Confidential
PDOMA - Pulled Directly Out Of My Ass
PEBCAK - Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
PITA - Pain In The Ass
QQ - Quick Question -or- Cry More
RFD - Request For Discussion
RFP - Request For Proposal
SBUG - Small Bald Unaudacious Goal
SME - Subject Matter Expert
SNAFU - Situation Normal, All F***ed Up
SSDD - Same Sh** Different Day
STD - Seal The Deal -or- Save The Date -or- Sexually Transmitted Disease
SWAG - Scientific Wild Ass Guess -or- SoftWare And Giveaways
TBA - To Be Advised
TBD - To Be Determined
TWIMC - To Whom It May Concern
TIA - Thanks In Advance
WIIFM - What's In It For Me
WOMBAT - Waste Of Money, Brains And Time
WTG - Way To Go
YW - You're Welcome
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50 for newbie
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@ - The "at" sign or "@" symbol is now such an integral part of the Internet, it deserves...
access - To log on to the Internet, where you can browse information, view Web sites, retrieve...
acronym - Derived from the first letters of a phrase, acronyms are meant to make the phrase...
any key - Newbies take heed: If a tech support person or a computer manual directs you to "hit...
avatar - A digital "actor" or icon that represents who you are and where you are in the virtual...
B2B - An acronym that describes business-to-business relationships or applications. Many...
back button - One of the buttons at the top of a Web browser. By clicking on it, you "go back" to...
blog - A Web site (or section of a Web site) where users can post a chronological, up-to-date...
bookmark - A direct link to an often visited site, saved in your browser for easy access. Bookmarks...
browser - A program used to view, download, upload, surf, or otherwise access documents (for...
cell phone - A mobile telephone that uses wireless technology, it is considered indispensable for...
chat or chatting - A form of interactive online communication that enables users to have real-time conversations...
computer - A device that runs programs for displaying and manipulating text, graphics, symbols,...
connectivity - The state of being connected to the Internet or to another type of computer network,...
debbie - A name for someone who is even newer than a newbie.
download - To transfer a file or files from one computer to another, for example, from a server...
e-commerce - Simply put, it means conducting business online. Selling goods, in the traditional...
e-mail or email - E-mail is mail that's electronically transmitted by your computer. As opposed to snail...
encryption - The process of protecting information as it moves from one computer to another. Passing...
FAQ - A list of questions and answers related to a Web site, newsgroup, software, or any...
file extension - The group of letters after a period or "dot" in a file name. The extension indicates...
gaming - It means "playing a game." Gaming also refers to the gaming industry as a whole, which...
handheld device - A computer or communications gadget that you can carry around with you, such as a...
hardware - The electronic components, boards, peripherals, and computer equipment that make up...
instant messaging - A technology that gives users the ability to identify people online and to exchange...
Internet - The most important technological innovation of our generation, the Internet is actually...
ISP - A company that provides users access to the Internet. Before you can connect to the...
login or log in - The act of connecting to or accessing a remote computer system, network, server, or...
netiquette - The code of conduct and unofficial rules that govern online interaction and behavior,...
newbie - Someone who is new to the Internet or new to computers in general. "Newbie" is sort...
newsgroups - A newsgroup is a forum for sharing information. Each one is an area on the Internet...
noob - There is controversy surrounding this word. Traditionally a noob, unlike a newbie...
OSP - A company that provides customer-only content to subscribers of its service. For example,...
P2P - In computer terms, a "peer" is an actual computer that exists on a network at the...
password - A combination of letters and other symbols needed to login to a computer system or...
phishing - An online scam in which the perpetrator sends out a large number of legitimate looking...
RTM or RTFM - Proper netiquette on newsgroups calls for users not to post newbie questions that...
search - The process of locating information on the Internet, whether it is to be found on...
SHOUTING - Chatters and people who post on Usenet will often tell others to stop shouting. It's...
sig file - A short statement at the end of an e-mail message. It identifies the sender and provides...
silver surfer - An adult, generally 50 years of age or older, who frequently surfs the Web and spends...
smiley or smileys - :-) A smiley is a sequence of typed characters that creates a rough picture of something,...
snail mail - Regular postal mail, as in, "through rain, snow, sleet, or hail. . . ." The obvious...
social networking - On a broad level, it is an online community of people who are socializing with each...
software - A set of instructions that tells a computer how to execute functions and tasks. Software...
tech support - A place you call when you have questions about computer hardware or software. The...
texting - The act of typing and sending a brief, electronic message (less than 160 characters)...
troll - Online it originally meant the act of posting a message in a newsgroup (and later...
URL - An acronym/term that describes the location and access method of a resource on the...
Web site - A place on the World Wide Web that's comprised of files organized into a hierarchy....
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50 tech terms
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404 - Originally a technical term for Not Found 404 (which is an error message seen on a...
411 - Online jargon, also known as text message shorthand, used primarily in texting, online...
86 - Online jargon, also known as text message shorthand, used primarily in texting, online...
age - Actually it is "-age" which is a suffix used in slang to exaggerate a word and give...
anime - An artistic and sensual type of Japanese animation. On the Internet, one can find...
back button - One of the buttons at the top of a Web browser. By clicking on it, you "go back" to...
bandwidth - The technical definition of "bandwidth" involves the difference between two frequencies...
biobreak - An office friendly way of saying that one needs to take a bathroom break.
brain dump - To empty one's brain of any and all information relating to a particular subject....
cached out - Slang for extremely tired, as in, "wiped out."
cookies - A funny name for a noun that describes a small piece of information about you (about...
cryptic - Primarily used as slang, it refers to anything that is hard to read. For example,...
dead-tree version - Slang for a printed document or publication, as opposed to an electronic version.
deep dive - Slang for exploring a subject in-depth. For example, "We did a deep dive on that market...
defrag - To optimize your hard drive, usually with a program that "cleans it up" and makes...
delete - To remove a file or erase information.
down time - This expression refers to lost production time due to a broken machine and its operator...
eye candy - Slang for extra graphics (or images) included on a Web page with the intent of making...
Film at 11 - With reference to TV commercials for the late local news, it's a sarcastic phrase...
Google - Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford Ph.D. candidates who developed...
hot spot - In the world of IT this term refers to places that have wireless Internet connections....
huge pipes - Slang for a high-bandwidth Internet connection.
interface - In a general sense, it is the portion of a program that interacts between a user and...
just-in-time (JIT) - Traditionally, this phrase describes a compiler that turns Java bytecode, for example,...
legacy media - Media that is considered "old," such as radio, television, and especially newspapers....
McLuhanism - A term for a catchy phrase or slogan coined by Marshall McLuhan, popular writer and...
meatspace - Slang for the real world, as opposed to cyberspace.
mommy-save - Slang for the act of indiscriminately clicking 'Save' without first choosing an appropriate...
morph or morphing - From the term "metamorphosis," it is to turn one thing into another. It most commonly...
multitasking - The simultaneous execution of more than one task. For example, a computer that launches...
navigate - The act of moving around the Web by clicking on hypertext links (or paths) that take...
opt-out - Any time a user requests to be removed from any kind of online program, he or she...
PDFing - An example of a word morphing, this term once described the process of turning a document...
photoshopped - A play on the word "Photoshop," the software graphics program created by Adobe, it...
PING or ping - Traditionally this term refers to an Internet program used to determine whether a...
plug-and-play - A standard for add-in hardware that requires it to identify itself on demand (see:...
plugged-in - Slang for wired, or being connected.
radar screen - In modern jargon, this refers to the range of interests that a company or individual...
rant-and-rave - To speak on and on about something you feel passionate for. Users often rant-and-rave...
robot - Traditionally, it's a device that can move and react to sensory input. Robots are...
scaleable or scalability - Refers to the ability of hardware or software or even a brand, to adapt to increased...
shelfware - Slang for software that is so worthless it remains in the shrink-wrapped box on the...
showstopper - Slang for anything that has the potential to halt the shipment or to stop the launch...
spammin' - Slang for speaking aimlessly on a mishmash of topics, or to stuff someone's brain...
surf or surfing - To browse or look at information on the Web by pointing and clicking and navigating...
thread - Originally it referred to a chain of postings on a single subject in a newsgroup....
TMI - Online jargon, also known as text message shorthand, used primarily in texting, online...
unplugged - Slang for being not connected. The opposite of wired. It also refers to acoustic music...
user - A term that defines the online audience, it also refers to anyone who uses a computer....
yoyo mode - The state in which a computer rapidly alternates several times between being up and...
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50 funniest
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all your base are belong to us - An incoherent line from a Japanese video game called Zero Wing by Sega Genesis, it...
angry garden salad - Slang for a poorly designed Web site GUI with incorrect code behind it (so that if...
assicons - A funny take on emoticons, "assicons" (like boobiecons) involve another body part....
boobiecons - Another funny take on emoticons, "boobiecons" (like assicons) involve another body...
cappuccino cowboy - A nickname for a person who just has to have a Starbucks coffee or other type of roadie...
chillaxin - Slang for chilling and relaxing, as in "What up? Not much, just chillaxin."
chips and salsa - Chips refers to computer hardware. Salso refers to software. For example you may hear...
cluster funk - When a multitude of things go wrong on a computer system, at the same time, because...
cornea gumbo - A visually noisy or over-designed Web site, usually with too many graphics and too...
crapplet - A badly written or totally useless Java applet, as in, "I just wasted thirty minutes...
dancing baloney - Gratuitous animated GIFs and other Web special effects that are used to impress clients....
digital doppelganger - Another name for your online persona, for example, the founder of NetLingo's "digital...
double geeking - When you use two computers at the same time. "Triple-geeking" is using three computers...
easter egg - A hidden element written into a program or placed on a Web site. Basically, it is...
eating your own dog food - When a computer company uses its own software for internal projects, it is said to...
echo chamber - Traditionally, an "echo chamber" describes a group of media outlets that tend to parrot...
fat finger - To make an error in typing, as in, "Oops, I didn't see that misspelling. I must have...
flame war - When an online discussion degenerates into a series of personal attacks against the...
fortune cookie - An inane, witty, or profound comment that can be found around the net. When you come...
fram - Slang for spam sent to you by your friends or family.
gingerbread house - Slang for a company that hires NCGs, places them in high-pressure positions, but pays...
grok - To "get it" or to understand something so completely that you absorb it and practically...
hairball - Any tangled mess. Often refers to poorly written computer code with Microsoft's name...
ID10T - An acronym, actually an expression, used among tech support personnel to disguise...
meatloaf - Unlike spam, which is unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE), meatloaf is unsolicited...
middle school dance - Slang for a situation in which two pieces of equipment are both waiting for the other...
ohnosecond - The fraction of time it takes to realize you've just goofed; for example, right after...
open your kimono - Silicon Valley slang for revealing your business idea to someone after he or she signs an NDA.
PITA - As in, "What a PITA," it is an acronym used primarily in texting, online chat, instant...
plonk - To kill (or filter-out) a particular person's messages from the newsgroups you read....
POTATO - This is what's known as a hilarious acronym to describe "People Over Thirty Acting...
prairie dogging - In geek speak it is slang for when someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube...
rasterbator - A designer who's become a compulsive digital manipulator or Photoshop abuser, as in...
router droppings - The inclusions added to e-mail messages when a server or recipient cannot be found....
salmon day - Workplace slang that refers to the experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream...
scribe tribes - Netizens who publish their journals, diaries, and daily ramblings on the Web and organize...
script kiddies - In general, this is slang for people who find tools on the Internet and use those...
seagull manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps over everything, and then leaves.
shareware girl - Office jargon for the coolest girl in the company, the one that all the programmers...
Siliconia - Nicknames for cities and areas with a heavy concentration of high-tech firms. "Siliconia"...
spam - An e-mail message sent to a large number of people without consent, also known as...
splog - "Splogs" are amateur blogs with mostly stolen content that are published by spurious...
time porn - Popular entertainment in general. Traditionally this term referred to TV shows like...
turklebaum - Based on a phony e-mail message about a fellow named Turklebaum (who allegedly died...
velveeta - To cross-post to an excessive number of newsgroups.
walled garden - A favorite term by those in the industry, a "walled garden" refers to certain Web...
wallhumper - Office slang for a person who raises their hip in an effort to swipe their electronic...
warez - This word is considered by many users to be a catchall term for software which includes...
word-of-mouse - Gossip or information spread via the net, usually through e-mail, blogs or newsgroup postings.
zen mail - E-mail messages that arrive with no text in the message body.