minisupercomputer

(computing) A computer capable of vector processing and small-scale multiprocessing, a cheaper alternative to a full supercomputer in the 1980s.


a picture is worth a thousand words

Popularized following a 1911 speech given by Arthur Brisbane where he encouraged advertisers "Use a picture. It's worth a thousand words." By 1915, the phrase in its modern form is attested. A number of other phrases expressing the same idea are are attested throughout the 1800s.

A visualisation is a better description than a verbal description.

Arthur Brisbane
Fred R. Shapiro
Quote Investigator
Wolfgang Mieder
a picture is worth a thousand words

صُورَة تُسَاوِي أَلْف كَلِمَة

visualisation is better than verbal description

een afbeelding zegt meer dan duizend woorden

yksi kuva kertoo enemmän kuin tuhat sanaa

百聞は一見に如かず

ひゃくぶんはいっけんにしかず

jeden obraz jest wart więcej niż tysiąc słów

o pictură spune mai mult decât o mie de vorbe

lúčše odín raz uvídetʹ, čem sto raz uslýšatʹ

лу́чше оди́н раз уви́деть, чем сто раз услы́шать


readback

Deverbal from read back, as in read that back to me, please.

If buffer readbacks are used, it is therefore important to try to reduce both the number of readbacks issued and the amount of data read back.

2005, Christer Ericson, Real-time collision detection, page 415

(computing) The act of reading data back from a location where it has been stored.


bahaha

(chiefly Internet) Representation of laughter.


socketless

(computing) Without the use of network sockets.


WORE

(computing) Initialism of write once, run everywhere.


WORA

en-adj

WORA (comparative more WORA, superlative most WORA)

more WORA (comparative)
most WORA (superlative)

Is JavaScript any more WORA than C?

write once, run anywhere
write once, run anywhere#English

(computing) Initialism of write once, run anywhere.


content repository

en-noun

content repository (plural content repositories)

content management system
content management system

(computing) The main repository of a content management system


test harness

(computing) A software framework containing tests to verify the behaviour of other software components.


FDK

(Adobe, software) Initialism of Font Development Kit.


SNS

The critical mass comprises the pioneers of an SNS who pay the start-up costs and set up a circle of acquaintances for newcomers; thereafter new subscribers to a mature SNS can join one after another rather than as a group (Heijden, 2004).

2015, Giuseppe Riva, Brenda K. Wiederhold, Pietro Cipresso, editors, The Psychology of Social Networking, volume 1, Walter de Gruyter, page 204

social networking
social networking#English

(Internet) Initialism of social networking site.


SNS

Simple Notification Service
w:Amazon Simple Notification Service

(cloud computing) Initialism of Simple Notification Service.


VFAT

file allocation table
file allocation table#English

backwards compatibility
backwards compatibility

(computing) Initialism of virtual file allocation table: the method used by Windows 9x and Windows NT to allow the use of long filenames on FAT16 and FAT32 file systems while still providing 8.3 aliases of these filenames for backwards compatibility with systems not supporting long filenames.


file allocation table
file allocation table

(computing) The version of the FAT series of file systems which uses a 32-bit file allocation table.


FATX

(computing) Abbreviation of Xbox file allocation table: the version of the FAT file system used on Xbox consoles and compatible storage peripherals.


(computing) The version of the FAT series of file systems which uses a 16-bit file allocation table.

(very strictly) The original version of this file system, storing both the number of (real or virtual) disk sectors and the number of sector clusters in a volume as 16-bit integers.

(often) FAT16B, the version of this file system storing the number of clusters in a volume as a 16-bit integer but using a 32-bit integer to represent the total number of sectors in a volume, allowing for larger volume and file sizes.


exFAT

(computing) Initialism of extended file allocation table, a 64-bit derivative of the FAT family of file systems.


(computing) A version of the FAT series of file systems which uses a 64-bit file allocation table.

(rare) A hypothetical FAT filesystem using a 64-bit file allocation table, but without the additional data structures found in exFAT.


FAT

FAT (countable and uncountable, plural FATs)

File Allocation Table
w:File Allocation Table

(computing) Acronym of File Allocation Table or file allocation table.

Any of a series of file systems that use one or more FATs.

(specifically, Microsoft Windows) FAT12 or FAT16, without drawing a distinction between the two.


(computing) The version of the FAT series of file systems which uses a 12-bit file allocation table.


retrig

en-verb

retrig (third-person singular simple present retrigs, present participle retrigging, simple past and past participle retrigged)

retrigs (present singular third-person)
retrigging (participle present)
retrigged (participle past)
retrigged (past)

This command will retrig the same note before playing the next. Where to retrig depends on the speed of the song. If you retrig with 1 in speed 6 that note will be trigged 6 times in one note slot.

1992, Ian Tweedie, “OK here it is!! Mod-File-Format!”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard (Usenet)

The clicking during the piano part is specially horrid... It sounds a bit like this: Click! Click-click-click! Whrrrrrr... Click! Click-click-click! Whrrrrrr... etc. (The Whrrrrrr bit sounds a bit like a sample being retrigged at a very high rate (a dozen times per second)).

1993, Justin William Brown, “Nausicaa MID... the clicking :(”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard (Usenet)

However, if you need to use different notes, just use 2 channels and delay the 2nd note instead of retrigging it.

1996, Andrew Carlson, “MOD composition question”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet)

(transitive, computing, tracker music) To retrigger (a note, or a sample within it).


retrig

(computing, tracker music) The retriggering of a note or sample.


furni

(slang, Internet) Clipping of furniture, popularised by the social networking website Habbo.

An item on Habbo used to decorate or customize a room.


lifelog

lifelog (third-person singular simple present lifelogs, present participle lifelogging, simple past and past participle lifelogged)

lifelogs (present singular third-person)
lifelogging (participle present)
lifelogged (participle past)
lifelogged (past)

(computing) To capture and record images of one's entire life.


lifelog

(computing) A collection of images of events in one's life, analogous to a weblog.


binary-compatible

en-adj

binary-compatible (comparative more binary-compatible, superlative most binary-compatible)

more binary-compatible (comparative)
most binary-compatible (superlative)

(computing) able to run the same binary code intended to be run on another computer


(software, publishing, typography) PostScript level 3


Coordinate term: PS/2

(computing, historical) Ellipsis of IBM PS/1, a line of personal computers.


Coordinate term: PS/1

(computing, historical) Initialism of Personal System/2, IBM's second generation of personal computers, released in 1987.

(electronics, historical) Ellipsis of PS/2 port, the serial I/O interface standard created for the IBM PS/2 keyboard and mouse.


(retronym, video games) Initialism of PlayStation 1.

(software, publishing, typography) Abbreviation of PostScript Level 1.


redditor

Alternative letter-case form of Redditor


portscanner

(computing) A software program that performs portscans.


anigif

The gentleman's original complaint was that his gifs (not anigifs) had been turned into anigifs. The answer you gave would be okay IF he only had one type of graphic involved.

1997 May 8, Ken M. Hale, “Gifs now Anigifs, How to turn them back?”, in microsoft.public.publisher (Usenet), message-ID <01bc5c0c$d93dcc00$e27681ce@premier1.premier1.net>

If you are asking about making an anigif then the other posts have addys that are good. If you're asking about placing an anigif on yer page, the answer's easy: Place it on like anyother picture.

1998 January 18, Rancie, “Animated Gif”, in alt.homepages.geocities (Usenet), message-ID <34c3b930.0@news1.ibm.net>

Stella, once you've converted the anigif to avi, insert it into PPT (using Insert/Movie/From File), then right-click it and select Custom Animation.

2001 March 18, Echo S, “Powerpoint 97”, in microsoft.public.design.gallery (Usenet), message-ID <3AB4C80A.E55238BE@indy.net>

(computing, informal) An animated image in the GIF format.


bi-endian

(computing) Supporting both big-endian and little-endian processing.


anycasting

(networking) The routing of data over a network using an anycast scheme.


superglobal

(computing, programming, in the PHP programming language) Any of a set of special predefined variables that can be accessed at any point in a program without the need to be explicitly declared as global.


pingee

(computing) The recipient of a ping (packet sent over a network to determine the presence of a host).


pseudocoding

(computing) The expression of an algorithm in pseudocode.


codestream

The codestream obtained after compression of an image with JPEG 2000 is scalable in nature, meaning that it can be decoded in a number of ways.


FTE

(computing, network) Initialism of fault-tolerant Ethernet.


gopherspace

How do you figure out where in gopherspace a particular kind of resource might be hiding?

1995, David F. W. Robison, Jonathan Kochmer, The Internet passport: NorthWestNet's guide to our world online, page 301

This chapter explains how to set up shop and do business in Gopherspace.

1995, David Angell, Brent D. Heslop, The Internet business companion: growing your business in the electronic age, page 123

Gopherspace is like a huge electronic library that needs a workable indexing and catalogue system.

1998, Jimin He, Internet resources for engineers, page 41

(Internet) The world of information available via the Gopher protocol.


nondomain

(chiefly computing) Not of or pertaining to a domain.


multitaskable

multitaskable (comparative more multitaskable, superlative most multitaskable)

more multitaskable (comparative)
most multitaskable (superlative)

By granularity we mean the length of time to execute a multitaskable segment of the original program on a single CPU. Granularity is measured in time units, rather than floating point operations, […]

2012, Geerd-R. Hoffmann, David F. Snelling, Multiprocessing in Meteorological Models, page 57

(computing) Capable of being solved or executed using multitasking.


rubout

A direct manipulation editor would support, for example, a single rubout key that uses the cursor to find the appropriate character for deletion […]

1990, Michael D. Harrison, Harold Thimbleby, Formal methods in human-computer interaction, page 130

The TS-1000 had ENTER instead of NEW LINE and DELETE instead of RUBOUT.

2002, Brotha G, “ZX81 Prototype Keyboard”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet)

(computing, uncountable, by extension, dated) Synonym of backspace.


manpage

From man (“short for manual and a Unix command to display help pages”) + page.

compound

short for <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">manual</i> and a Unix command to display help pages

(computing, Unix) A block of user documentation.


dict

I did not see the message from Joe, when I began to make another attempt to collect a multilingual dict, which is now is included in the Debian Women Project [4] and in my homepage [5]. […] There currently are three sorts of dicts:
- The acronym dict
- Translations from and to English languages

2005 January 26, Jutta Wrage, “Debian Dictionary”, in linux.debian.doc (Usenet)

- Monolingual Dictionaries with explanations of words or phrases.

(chiefly computing, informal) Clipping of dictionary.


paywalled

[…] suggesting that the paywalled online news models currently pursued by the Australian News Ltd and its international parent NewsCorp were unworkable and based on outdated ideas […]

2012, Eugenia Siapera, Andreas Veglis, The Handbook of Global Online Journalism, page 415

(Internet) Having a paywall; requiring payment for access.


meatshot

(video games, in online FPS gaming) A shot, from a shotgun or scattergun, all of whose bullets strike the enemy, usually from a very short to point-blank range.


blade server

(computing) A stripped-down server with a modular design, optimized to minimize the use of physical space and energy.


mousework

TIP OF THE WEEK Keyboard shortcuts can save time and a lot of mousework for common computing chores, but sometimes it is hard to find them.

2007 June 14, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Fixing Silent Movies in Windows”, in New York Times

(computing) Activities requiring the use of a mouse (input device).


chatbox

As you may know, in the third weekend of October, we will organise a JOTI (Jamboree On The Internet) weekend, instead of the JOTA. During that weekend we plan to open several chatboxes on IRC. On these boxes Scouts from all over the world can chat with each other.

1997, vdveen, “JOTI 1997 Chatboxes IMPORTANT INFORMATION”, in de.soc.jugendarbeit (Usenet)

How do you handle students who use the Internet for chatboxes and email?

1997, Billie Walker, “Chatboxes and email”, in bit.listserv.libref-l (Usenet)

As the video streams, there's a chatbox by the side of it. All viewers are welcome to leave comments in the chatbox or simply watch the chat that is developing.

2016, Zoe Griffin, Get Rich Blogging, Kings Road Publishing


blort

Onomatopoetic; in sense 1, also blend of blow + snort.

metasyntactic variable
metasyntactic variable

(computing, uncountable) A metasyntactic variable similar to foo and bar


metacrawler

[…] searched the Web by harnessing existing search engines. These types of applications are called metacrawlers, and are a useful way of aggregating results from many search engine databases.

(Internet) An application that searches the Web using existing search engines.


unassemble

en-verb

unassemble (third-person singular simple present unassembles, present participle unassembling, simple past and past participle unassembled)

unassembles (present singular third-person)
unassembling (participle present)
unassembled (participle past)
unassembled (past)


disambiguator

(computing) A program that determines the meaning of a term from the context in which it is used


byter

This patch is a one-byter.

(computing, in combination with a number) A chunk of data having a size of so many bytes.


antispammer

(Internet) An activist who fights spam (unsolicited commercial e-mail).


NTG

(Internet) Initialism of not this group (i.e. newsgroup).


retromod

retromod (third-person singular simple present retromods, present participle retromodding, simple past and past participle retromodded)

retromods (present singular third-person)
retromodding (participle present)
retromodded (participle past)
retromodded (past)

(Internet, transitive, informal) To retromoderate.


retromoderate

retromoderate (third-person singular simple present retromoderates, present participle retromoderating, simple past and past participle retromoderated)

retromoderates (present singular third-person)
retromoderating (participle present)
retromoderated (participle past)
retromoderated (past)

(transitive, Internet) To moderate (a newsgroup) by initially allowing all posts through and later issuing cancellations of those deemed unacceptable.


skydome

(video games, computer graphics) A sphere or hemisphere with a texture on its inner face, used to simulate the sky or similar backdrop around a three-dimensional playfield.


kernel space

(computing) The on-board RAM set aside specifically for kernel-related tasks.


bullet hell

Mars Matrix is a bullet hell game that is pretty well designed.

2003, Billy Bissette, “SAY IT AIN'T SO!!!”, in rec.games.video.sega (Usenet)

A few of the game cabinets are connected to flat-screen TVs so bystanders can stop and ogle. Grimy VCRs are hooked up to bullet-hell shooting games...

2008, Brian Ashcraft, Jean Snow, Arcade Mania: The Turbo-charged World of Japan's Game Centers

The camera is a convenient nonviolent replacement for a gun, a principle perhaps taken most literally by Shoot the Bullet (2005), a bullet hell game in which you clear bullets by photographing them.

2019 February 25, Jordan Erica Webber, “Point and shoot: what's next for photography in video games?”, in The Guardian

(video games, attributive) A genre of two-dimensional shoot 'em up in which the playfield is almost filled with a barrage of enemy bullets.


cyberzine

Today, comparable cyberzines reach tens of thousands of readers without incurring any printing or distribution costs. The only expenses, in addition to the hard- and software, are modest server and access fees.

1999, Steven Heller, Design literacy (continued): understanding graphic design, page 34

(computing) A magazine published on the Internet.


JSWDK

(software) Abbreviation of JavaServer Web Development Kit.


supermoderator

(Internet) A moderator who has permission to moderate every forum on a web site.


zerg

zerg (third-person singular simple present zergs, present participle zerging, simple past and past participle zerged)

zergs (present singular third-person)
zerging (participle present)
zerged (participle past)
zerged (past)

From the game StarCraft (1998), in which the easily mass-produced Zerg units encourage such a strategy.

You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players. They don't have to zerg lower tier encounters just like the lowest tier guilds doesn't have to zerg orc camp 1 in EC. But, at the top end, it's still zerg tactics.

2002, Wolfie, “Re: Whoa - massive changes due in next patch”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet)

The scale and lack of focused content doesn't facilitate this grouping as well as some other games. The good side of that is you don't get the "wonderful" experience of zerging around DF with everyone else waiting for something to spawn.

2003, George, “Finding groups to mission/hunt/other experience with”, in alt.games.starwarsgalaxies (Usenet)

No one ever did D (or just 3-4 people tried), we just zerged, and we would lose every single AV.

2008, neithskye, “AV after the last changes...”, in alt.games.warcraft (Usenet)

(slang, video games, strategy games) To attack an opponent with a large swarm of units before they have been able to build sufficient defences.


zerg

(slang, video games) A very large group of units or players.


unicyclic

(graph theory, of a graph) Having a single cycle.


MIC

(computing, Microsoft) Initialism of Microsoft Innovation Center.

(computing) Initialism of Message Integrity Check. (A technology that is employed to prevent an attacker from capturing data packets, altering them and resending them. The MIC provides a strong mathematical function in which the receiver and the transmitter each compute and then compare the MIC. If it does not match, the data is assumed to have been tampered with and the packet is dropped.)


Basic Pokémon

A Pokémon card (in Pokémon Trading Card Game) that does not evolve from any other Pokémon card, or evolves from a Baby Pokémon card.


e-banking

(banking) Banking carried out electronically, as for example over the Internet.


backspaceable

The reason was to allow the newer backspaceable Teletypes and their code-compatible derivatives to represent the international character sets more readily.

1992, Joseph M. Newcomer, “ASCII”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet)

Anyway, the standard does allow for non-backspaceable files, at the compiler's choice.

2009, Richard Maine, “Error writing on unit 22”, in comp.lang.fortran (Usenet)

(computing, rare) Supporting a backspace function.


artboard

In this section, you'll learn how to create multiple artboards, edit them, and print files that contain multiple artboards.

2009, Sue Jenkins, How to Do Everything Adobe Illustrator, page 27

The following sections describe how each of these transforms can be used to make changes to objects on the artboard.

2009, Jeff Paries, Foundation Silverlight 3 Animation, page 36

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) An on-screen design surface in a drawing application.


TAPI

(computing, Microsoft Windows) Initialism of Telephony Application Programming Interface.


unzipper

The problem is that you may not have the necessary unzipper.

1992 March 31, PC Mag, volume 11, number 6

Which comes first, the ZIP file or the unzipper? You can't uncompress a file containing PKUNZIP unless you first have PKUNZIP.

1995, Urban A. LeJeune, Jeff Duntemann, Mosaic and Web Explorer, page 202

(computing) A program that extracts files from compressed archives.


constructorless

As mentioned briefly in the discussion of the STL library in the previous chapter, functions can be replaced by functors, which are constructorless objects that implement the function body through a redefinition of the parenthesis operator.

2005, David Yevick, A first course in computational physics and object-oriented programming with C++, page 326

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(object-oriented programming) Without a constructor.


oblivious transfer

en-noun

oblivious transfer (plural oblivious transfers)

(cryptography) A transfer in which a sender sends some information to a receiver but does not know what is received.


overpunch

en-verb

overpunch (third-person singular simple present overpunches, present participle overpunching, simple past and past participle overpunched)

overpunches (present singular third-person)
overpunching (participle present)
overpunched (participle past)
overpunched (past)

(transitive, computing) To punch (some value or pattern) over an existing pattern on paper tape.


superkick

Thirty minutes later this superkick landed me, when I came crashing back to earth, at the door of the Egyptian tomb.

1920, The Saturday Evening Post, Benjamin Franklin Literary & Medical Society, page 129

"Mere you-tickle-me-I-tickle you stuff. No Urge about that sort of thing; no Superkick;—well Starfire, if you know what I mean!"— she said it shyly, being young enough and Anglo-Saxon enough, to dread the language.

1933, Eleanor Mercein Kelly, Arabesque, Harper & Brothers, page 231

Lori Couto's SUPERKICK?

1980, Berkley Middle School Yearbook, Berkley Public Library, page 29

At the end of the season, in December, they have a competitive and hilarious “superkick,’ a contest measuring accuracy, distance, and style (“style meaning how mongrelly your kicks are”), but that’s generally the extent of formal ceremony, a fact Kelly savors.

2004, Brian Doyle, Spirited Men: Story, Soul & Substance, Cowley Publications, page 127

(martial arts, video games, fantasy, science fiction, rare) An extremely strong kick, performed with proficiency, which differs from the common wrestling variation.


GID

en-noun

GID (countable and uncountable, plural GIDs)

(computing, Unix) Acronym of group identifier.


Cheshire cat

the Cheshire cat (canonical)
Cheshire cats (plural)

/ˌtʃɛʃə ˈkat/

/ˌtʃɛʃɚ ˈkæt/

Term attested since at least the 1780s in the expression grin like a Cheshire cat. The reason why Cheshire was combined with cat is disputed: see here for more information.

the Cheshire cat idiom

the Cheshire cat technique

(programming, attributive) A technique that involves hiding a class's data behind a pointer, so that the code remains binary-compatible even after future changes to members and functionality.


Eeveelution

(fandom slang) Any Pokémon that is an evolution of Eevee, either official or made up by fans.


Pokémaniac

Blend of Pokémon + maniac. Derived from "POKéMANIAC", the name of a class of opponent characters in-game. The characters are nowadays seen donning cosplay pieces resembling the Pokémon creatures (though originally wearing lab coats and portrayed as being somewhat lunatic). "POKéMANIAC" was the term used in the English translation for the aforementioned, originally called 「かいじゅうマニア」 [kaijuumania] ("monster maniac") in Japanese. Equivalent to Poké- + maniac.

A dedicated or obsessive fan of Pokémon.


zeroable

(computing, linguistics) Capable of being zeroed.


multischema

Use caution when granting public synonyms, especially in a multischema environment.

2009, Ryan K. Stephens, Ronald R. Plew, Arie Jones, Sams Teach Yourself SQL in One Hour a Day, page 567

(databases) Of or pertaining to more than one (database) schema.


preroll

preroll (countable and uncountable, plural prerolls)

Are ads that play before video clips, known as prerolls, more effective when paired with banner ads?

2009 July 27, Brooks Barnes, “Lab Watches Web Surfers to See Which Ads Work”, in New York Times

(Internet, advertising, countable) An advertisement that plays before the main content.


IIOP

(computing) Initialism of Internet inter-ORB protocol.


JNI

(computing) Initialism of Java Native Interface.


(computing) Old abbreviation for JavaSE.


JMX

Java Management Extensions
w:Java Management Extensions

(computing) Initialism of Java Management Extensions.


RMI-IIOP

(computing) Abbreviation of RMI over IIOP.


(dated, computing) Abbreviation of JavaEE.


JavaME

Java Platform, Micro Edition
w:Java Platform, Micro Edition

(computing) Acronym of Java Platform, Micro Edition.


JavaSE

Java Platform, Standard Edition
w:Java Platform, Standard Edition

(computing) Acronym of Java Platform, Standard Edition.


AWT

Abstract Window Toolkit
w:Abstract Window Toolkit

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Abstract Window Toolkit.


JDK

(computing) Initialism of Java Development Kit.


RMI

Remote Method Invocation
remote method invocation#English

(computing) Abbreviation of Remote Method Invocation.


JavaEE

Java Platform, Enterprise Edition
w:Java Platform, Enterprise Edition

(computing) Abbreviation of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition.


command-line interpreter

command-line interpreter (plural command-line interpreters)

programming language
programming language

(computing) A computer program that reads lines of text entered by a user and interprets them in the context of a given operating system or programming language.


CLDC

(computing) Connected limited device configuration


JTWI

(computing) Initialism of Java Technology for the Wireless Industry.


MMAPI

(programming) Initialism of Mobile Media API.


WMA

(computing) Initialism of Wireless Messaging API.


WMA

(computing) Initialism of Windows Media Audio (file).


PBP

(computing) Personal Basis Profile of JavaME.

(computing) Alternative letter-case form of PbP (“Picture-by-Picture”)


eevolution

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Eevolution.


Pokédollar

From Poké- + dollar, coined by fans to describe an alternative symbol for yen that first appears on the games Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue, from 1996.

(Pokémon) A unit of currency that is usually described as having characteristics of yen and/or dollar. Its symbol is .


EVP

Enhanced Virus Protection
w:Enhanced Virus Protection

(computing) Initialism of Enhanced Virus Protection.


newsgrouper

(Internet, slang) A user of Internet newsgroups.


newgroup

en-verb

newgroup (third-person singular simple present newgroups, present participle newgrouping, simple past and past participle newgrouped)

newgroups (present singular third-person)
newgrouping (participle present)
newgrouped (participle past)
newgrouped (past)

If the group passes, it will be newgrouped after five days. If the group fails, it can't be voted on again for six months.

1998, Carla G. Surratt, Netlife: Internet citizens and their communities, page 75

2000, Harlock, “I'm newgrouping alt.binaries.tv.millennium today!”, in alt.config (Usenet):

(Internet, transitive) To create (a newsgroup on Usenet) by sending a special control message.


multipost

multipost (third-person singular simple present multiposts, present participle multiposting, simple past and past participle multiposted)

multiposts (present singular third-person)
multiposting (participle present)
multiposted (participle past)
multiposted (past)

It makes more sense to crosspost than to multipost: that way, replies will all appear together in a single thread.

(computing, transitive, intransitive) To post several copies of (a message) to different newsgroups.


unbrick

unbrick (third-person singular simple present unbricks, present participle unbricking, simple past and past participle unbricked)

unbricks (present singular third-person)
unbricking (participle present)
unbricked (participle past)
unbricked (past)

Using JTAG to Unbrick Your Router

2007, Paul Asadoorian, Larry Pesce, Linksys WRT54G: ultimate hacking, page 327

(transitive, slang, computing) To repair a device that was bricked (rendered inoperative).


JCP

(computing, Java programming language) Initialism of Java Community Process.


SNAP

Subnetwork Access Protocol
w:Subnetwork Access Protocol

(computing) Acronym of Subnetwork Access Protocol.

Scalable Network Application Package
w:Scalable Network Application Package

(computing) Acronym of Scalable Network Application Package.

(computing) Acronym of Symbolic Network Analysis Program.


recompilable

(computing) Capable of being recompiled.


compilability

(computing) The quality of being compilable.


OTA

en-noun

OTA (countable and uncountable, plural OTAs)

(computing, communication) Initialism of over-the-air.


vblank

(television, computing) Abbreviation of vertical blanking.


hblank

(television, computing) Abbreviation of horizontal blanking.


type safety

(programming, software compilation) the extent to which a programming language discourages or prevents type errors


kill screen

The most famous kill screen from classic gaming is the 256th level of Pac-Man. At this point, due to a bug half the screen becomes garbled data, which keeps the player from collecting all of the dots and clearing the board to move on.

2010, Scott Rogers, Level Up!: The Guide to Great Video Game Design, page 48

Kill screens—a problem largely limited to arcade games—occur when an unexpectedly far progress of a player causes an error in the game program.

2020, Michelle Herte, Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital Games, Routledge

(video games) A level in a computer game that is impossible to win, usually due to programming errors.


Rocketshipper

From rocket + shipper (after the characters' team, Team Rocket, and punningly on rocketship).

Those of you who have read my fanfics will know that I am a Rocketshipper.

2000 January 13, Blue-Jackal and her box-o-Skywarp [username], “Jessie and James, an item?”, in alt.fan.team-rocket (Usenet)

All the Rocketshippers love to talk about evidence in favor of Jessie/James being in love and such.

2000 February 7, BBD127 [username], “Rocketshipping... negative evidence?”, in alt.fan.team-rocket (Usenet)

You realize, of course, that this thread would probably get us lynched by the large Rocketshipper population on the net.

2001 January 15, Bodger [username], “Re: Gay couple in Godzilla vs. Megalon”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Usenet)

(fandom slang) A shipper of Jessie and James, characters in the animated version of Pokémon.


mudder

For mudders like myself (an AI researcher), ’bots and their associated likely behavior patterns are old hat.

1993, Leonard N. Foner, “What's an Agent, Anyway? A Sociological Case Study”, in MIT Media Lab, archived from the original on 2022-12-09

You will not find any stock. You will not find any easy mobs. You will not find any +100 dam 'big swords of I win'. You will not find twink mudders. You will not hear about how Jim the Kewl dOOd scored last night at his sister's birthday party. You will not find bots.

1997, Gov't Cheeze, “[AD/REQUEST] Builders and Players (twinks need not apply)”, in rec.games.mud.admin (Usenet)

(Internet) A participant in a multi-user dungeon.


gameverse

(fandom slang) A universe depicted in one or more video games.


bolt-on

Hagström
Huffy
bolt-on neck
motorized bicycle

This week we take a close look at four top contenders in the multitasking arena […] All the multitasking systems available for microcomputers today fall into one of two distinct categories: "bolt-on" multitaskers, which add multitasking to an operating system (DOS, for example) that originally executed one task at a time; and "built-in" multitaskers, which are part of the operating system by design.

1990 September 24, Brett Glass, Tracey Capen, “Orchestrating Applications: While Desqview Referees MS-DOS Applications, Three Graphics-based Multitaskers Promote Cooperative Look-alike Environments”, in InfoWorld, volume 12, number 39, Menlo Park, Calif.: InfoWorld Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 63, column 4

Enhanced Data Rates for Global Evolution (EDGE), also known as Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS), is a digital mobile phone technology which acts as a bolt-on enhancement to 2G and 2.5G General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) networks.

2007, “Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution”, in Jielin Dong, editor, Network Dictionary, Saratoga, Calif.: Javvin Technologies, page 177

(figuratively, computing) Used to extend an existing system, operating as an add-on or plug-in.


quadcore

The system runs on the PC with Fedora Linux operating system, 2.5 GHz quadcore processor and 4 GB of memory and is able to process 10 video frames per second in real time […]

2010, George A. Tsihrintzis, Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, page 18

(computing, of a microprocessor) Composed of four cores.


Pikachu

(video games, anime, manga) A small yellow rodent-like Pokémon species that has red cheeks and a tail shaped like a lightning bolt, and has electricity-related powers.


lifestream

These tools include blogs, message boards, podcasts, micro blogs, lifestreams, bookmarks, networks, communities, wikis, and vlogs.

2010, John P. Girard, JoAnn L. Girard, Social Knowledge, page 35

(Internet) A time-ordered stream of documents that functions as a diary of one's electronic life.


lazyweb

From lazy + Web, coined by British designer and co-founder of Dopplr Matt Jones in 2002, and later popularized as a hashtag added to questions on Twitter, peaking around 2008.

coin

Victor proves the first rule of the lazy-web ("if you wait long enough, someone will write/build/design what you were thinking about")[…]

2002 June 11, Matt Jones, “Make me think.”, in blackbeltjones.com, archived from the original on 2002-06-12

Some might want a little widget for their weblog that does something cool. Talk about it online for a bit—through the magical power of the LazyWeb—and they may well get it.

2003 January 16, Ben Hammersley, “Web-sharing the lazy way”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

2008, Ricardo SIGNES, “dear lazyweb: hashref instead of objects”, in perl.moose (Usenet):

2009, Jonno Downes, “lazyweb request for reusable menu code”, in comp.sys.apple2.programmer (Usenet):

If the phrase doesn't exist, you can offer a definition, or it asks the ‘lazyweb’ for one by tweeting it.

2011, Tim Phillips, Talk Normal: Stop the Business Speak, Jargon and Waffle, Kogan Page Publishers, page 175

The lazyweb hashtag is rarely used anymore—it peaked in 2008 and has been declining with increasing rapidity over time—but people still turn to Twitter when they want to outsource a question.

2011 July 7, Nicholas Jackson, “Infographic: Twitter, Lazyweb Expose the Limits of Google”, in The Atlantic

For instance, a lazyweb request on Twitter is likely to be successful if the requester has either responded previously to such requests […].

2011, Martin Weller, The Digital Scholar: How Technology is Transforming Scholarly Practice, London: Bloomsbury, pages 102–103

(Internet, informal, humorous) The Internet, personified as a being that will answer the questions of those who are too lazy to do their own research.

given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow


(computing) Short for third level in various contexts

(computing) The third-level cache of a processor, farther away from the processor than the second-level cache.

an L3 switch

(networking) The network layer in the seven-layer OSI network model.


cheesable

en-adj

cheesable (comparative more cheesable, superlative most cheesable)

more cheesable (comparative)
most cheesable (superlative)

(video games, slang) Of a level, obstacle, opponent, etc.: able to be defeated or overcome by cheesing.


uncheesable

uncheesable (comparative more uncheesable, superlative most uncheesable)

more uncheesable (comparative)
most uncheesable (superlative)


Piet

Piet
Piet (programming language)
Piet Mondrian

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Piet.

An esoteric programming language whose programs are bitmaps that look like abstract art.


SIPRNET

(US) The Secret Internet Protocol Router Network: the U.S. Department of Defense's largest network for the exchange of classified information and messages at the SECRET level.


CTS

Common Language Interface
Common Language Interface

(computing) Common Time System for the Common Language Interface of .NET


rematerialization

en-noun

rematerialization (usually uncountable, plural rematerializations)

(computing theory, uncountable) A compiler optimization that saves time by recomputing a value instead of loading it from memory.


deoptimize

en-verb

deoptimize (third-person singular simple present deoptimizes, present participle deoptimizing, simple past and past participle deoptimized)

deoptimizes (present singular third-person)
deoptimizing (participle present)
deoptimized (participle past)
deoptimized (past)

(transitive, programming) To reverse a previous optimization, typically when the assumptions that made it valid prove to be incorrect.


toss up

toss up (third-person singular simple present tosses up, present participle tossing up, simple past and past participle tossed up)

tosses up (present singular third-person)
tossing up (participle present)
tossed up (participle past)
tossed up (past)

Restless in quarantine, she began posting videos on Instagram, one of which got picked up by Barstool, the popular sports blog. […] Then she tossed up a few on TikTok, notably one in which she faux-naively referred to Houston Street in New York, which is pronounced How-ston, as Hew-ston.

2023 March 14, Alexandra Jacobs, “Your Annoying Roommate Is Slaying on TikTok”, in The New York Times

(transitive, Internet) To post or upload.


constness

From const (“a keyword for constant in the C programming language and its derivatives”) + -ness.

affix

a keyword for <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">constant</i> in the C programming language and its derivatives

If you want to change a class member inside a const member function, the traditional approach is to cast away constness by saying (X*)this.

1995, Embedded Systems Programming, volume 8, page 180

(programming) The declaration of variables or objects as immutable.


stackless

(programming) Without the use of a stack (last-in-first-out data structure).


protothread

(computing) A lightweight stackless thread used in concurrent programming.


ORM

Alternative form: O/RM

object–relational mapping
w:object–relational mapping

(object-oriented programming, databases) Initialism of object–relational mapping.

software engineering
software engineering

object–role modeling
w:object–role modeling

(software engineering) Initialism of object–role modeling.


SCJP

Sun Certified Java Programmer
w:Sun Certified Java Programmer

(computing) Initialism of Sun Certified Java Programmer.


CLOS

(computing) Acronym of common Lisp object system.


telly tennis

From telly + tennis, the game having a superficial resemblance to tennis.

The monitored heart-rate on a small screen, like a hesitant green version of the telly tennis he'd played in pubs or railway stations.

1976, Elaine Feinstein, The ecstasy of Dr Miriam Garner, page 101

Hooked on telly tennis, or football? We've been carrying out some in-depth testing of (playing with) a TV games unit for you to build.

1979 October 4, New Scientist, volume 84, number 1175, page 48

He finds them sitting at a small table holding a horizontal video tube and stands watching them play telly tennis.

1992, Mudrooroo (Colin Johnson), Long live Sandawara, page 61

(slang, video games, UK, Australia) The game of Pong, or any TV game closely based on it.


C++

Notepad++

(computing) Indicates a product with additional features or functionality.


hyperslice

(computing, programming) A set of concerns in aspect-oriented programming.


FLAC

Free Lossless Audio Codec
w:Free Lossless Audio Codec

(file format) Initialism of Free Lossless Audio Codec.


conventional memory

(computing, computer hardware) The first 640 kilobytes of RAM in an IBM-compatible PC.


IDE cable

(computing) A 40-pin parallel cable used between personal computers and storage devices.


SATA cable

(computing) A particular high-speed serial cable


null modem

(computing) A means of directly connecting two pieces of equipment (computer, printer, etc.) using a serial cable.


extended memory

(computing) The extent of memory above the first megabyte in the address space of later PCs


rollover cable

(computing) A particular type of cable used to connect consoles to computers.


base memory

random access memory
random access memory

(computing) The first 640 kilobytes of RAM (random access memory) in an IBM-compatible PC.

(computing) The amount of RAM installed on a new computer, before any optional upgrades.


impact printer

(computing, retronym) A printer in which each character is produced by part of the mechanism striking the paper (normally through an inked ribbon)


floptical disk

(computing) A form of floppy disk whose head tracking was optically controlled (superseded by compact disc technology).


WAIS

Additionally, gateways exist so that WAIS users can retrieve information from non-WAIS data bases like Gopher, developed by university users of Next computers, and the World Wide Web, which makes available physicists' research from many locations.

1993 February 28, John Markoff, “A Web of Networks, an Abundance of Services”, in New York Times

Wide Area Information Servers
w:Wide Area Information Servers

(computing) Initialism of Wide Area Information Servers.


PSPO

(software engineering) Initialism of professional scrum product owner.


PSM

en-noun

PSM (countable and uncountable, plural PSMs)

(software engineering) Initialism of professional scrum master.


Tamagotchi

/ˌtaməˈɡɒtʃɪ/

/ˌtɑməˈɡoʊt͡ʃi/

/ˌtɑməˈɡɑt͡ʃi/

A genericization of Tamagotchi, the name of a virtual pet series: the word is a Japanese blend of 卵 (たまご, tamago, “egg”) + ウオッチ (uotchi, from English watch).

blend

from English <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">watch</i>

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Tamagotchi.

A toy consisting of a small electronic virtual pet, a cyberpet.


embrace, extend and extinguish

Formerly used internally by Microsoft. First described outside Microsoft in a 1996 New York Times article entitled "Microsoft Trying to Dominate the Internet".

A strategy of marketing that involves extending widely used standards of product categories with proprietary capabilities, and then using the differences to disadvantage its competitors.


esport

(video games) Alternative form of e-sport


unenabled

They too would employ only unindividuated and unenabled blastocysts.

2001 June 1, Louis M. Guenin, “ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: Morals and Primordials”, in Science, volume 292, number 5522, →DOI, pages 1659–1660

(chiefly in embryology or computing) Not having been enabled.


UN*X

Unix-like operating system (e.g., Linux, macOS, Solaris, etc.).


Gaian

Inspired by comic-book and anime fans, “Gaians” play games, […]

2008 July 3, Corilyn Shropshire, “AVATAR SHOPPING / Virtual clotheshorses / A little cash goes a long way to get the latest wardrobe - even though it isn't real”, in Houston Chronicle, page E.1

Within the offering’s first hour of launch, Gaians acquired over 28,000 Scions, a figure that grew to 600,000 within six months.

2010, Rick Mathieson, The On-Demand Brand: 10 Rules for Digital Marketing Success in an Anytime, Everywhere World, AMACOM, page 9

Gaians create customizable avatars and virtual homes using Gaia Cash and Gaia Gold and allow users to shop at their Gold Shops, Cash Shops, and marketplaces for trading on the Gaia Exchange (Gaiaonline.com).

2023, Nathalie Rébé, editor, Cyber Laundering: International Policies And Practices, World Scientific, page 131

(Internet) A member of the anime-themed social networking and forums-based website Gaia Online.


wall kick

(video games) A sideways movement that results from a rotation of a piece that is touching the left or right walls in certain versions of the video game Tetris.


ghost piece

(video games) A representation of where a piece will land if it falls without intervention (such as moving it away or rotating it) in the video game Tetris.


eroge

Borrowed from Japanese エロゲー (erogē), a portmanteau of エロチックゲーム (erochikku gēmu), from English erotic game.


hard drop

A manual downward motion of a piece in the video game Tetris that makes it land immediately (that is, within only one frame).


factory reset

A factory reset returns your Android device to “out of the box” condition. It deletes all user data and settings.

2014, Mark Edward Soper, The PC and Gadget Help Desk, Que Publishing, page 590

(computing) A full restore of an electronic device, such as a PDA or a mobile phone, to its original settings, deleting all of its data.


semantics-free

en-adj

semantics-free (comparative more semantics-free, superlative most semantics-free)

more semantics-free (comparative)
most semantics-free (superlative)

However, most of DHT systems focus strictly on handling semantics-free, large-granularity requests for objects by identifier (typically a name). They are limited to caching, pre-fetching, or pushing of content at the object level

2004, Weixiong Rao with Hui Song and Fanyuan Ma, “Querying XML data over DHT System using XPeer”, in Hai Jin, editor, Grid and cooperative computing: GCC 2004, page 559

They all try to demonstrate that language is more than just the assembling of context-free words using semantics-free rules

2007, Wolfgang Teubert, Text corpora and multilingual lexicography, page 131

To date, such research has been impossible, since corpora have for the most part been annotated at a relatively shallow (semantics-free) level, forcing NLP researchers to choose between shallow approaches and hand-crafted approaches,

2009, Hans Christian Boas, Multilingual FrameNets in computational lexicography, page 292

(linguistics, computing) Having no semantic content.


depth-first search

en-noun

depth-first search (countable and uncountable, plural depth-first searches)

Coordinate term: breadth-first search

(graph theory) An algorithm for traversing a tree or graph where one starts at the root and explores as far as possible along each branch before backtracking.

syvyyshaku

algorithm where one starts at the root and explores as far as possible down before going up


reflowable

(computing, wordprocessing, of text) Capable of having its layout modified so as to fit into the spaces around other objects in a document.


(computing) Initialism of Java 2 Runtime Environment.


mailfile

(computing) A file that stores electronic mail.


RDP

(computing) Initialism of Remote Desktop Protocol.


JeOS

operating system
operating system#English

(computing) Abbreviation of just enough operating system: one customised to the needs of a specific application, with other features excluded.


PAT

PAT (countable and uncountable, plural PATs)

Coordinate term: NAT

(networking) Initialism of port address translation.

Protocols are abstract as they are, but with PATs, you’re making your protocols generic, which makes your code even more abstract and exponentially complex.

2019, Tjeerd in 't Veen, chapter 8, in Swift in Depth, Manning

(programming) Initialism of protocol associated type.

(computing) Initialism of personal access token.


white-box testing

(software, testing) The testing of the internal structure, rather than the functionality, of a system.


black-box testing

(software, testing) Any form of testing in which knowledge of the internals of the system being tested are unknown and unimportant.

nigraskatolo testado

testing in which knowledge of the system being tested is unknown


lasagna code

Modeled after spaghetti code, and based on the layered construction of lasagna; coined by Joe Celko in 1982.

(programming, rare) Computer program code characterized by several well-defined and separable layers forming a hierarchy of subsystems.


rule of three

(programming) A rule of thumb in the C++ programming language, stating that any class that defines a destructor, a copy constructor, or a copy assignment operator should define all three of them.


floorplanning

(electronics) The act of designing a floor plan (electronic circuit design).


WRPG

role-playing game
role-playing game#English

role-playing video game
role-playing video game

(video games) Initialism of Western role-playing game, a traditional genre of role-playing video game generally understood as involving a customizable player character, open-ended, non-linear gameplay, exploration of a large game world, and an overall high level of player agency.


The Commodore 64, a home computer of the 1980s.


DIB

(computing) Abbreviation of device-independent bitmap.


crash out

en-verb

crash out (third-person singular simple present crashes out, present participle crashing out, simple past and past participle crashed out)

crashes out (present singular third-person)
crashing out (participle present)
crashed out (participle past)
crashed out (past)

From crash + out. The slang sense was popularized on TikTok in 2024.

(informal, computing) To terminate with an unhandled error; to crash.


Hotmailer

(Internet, informal, historical) Someone who has a Hotmail email account.


glenzed

With a clever palette, you can get glenzed characters over the background (something akin to the ghosts in Super Mario World).

1995, NewOrder Demo Group, “modex sprite optimisation”, in rec.games.programmer (Usenet)

(computer graphics) Displayed with a simulation of translucency by means of glenzing.


blogtastic

en-adj

blogtastic (comparative more blogtastic, superlative most blogtastic)

more blogtastic (comparative)
most blogtastic (superlative)

(informal) excellent, with regards to blogs or blogging.


Flickrer

Once setup is done, it's just a matter of a couple of mouse clicks to move photos, with comments, to your blog. (Fellow Flickrers who don't want their photos blogged can specify that as well.)

2008, Bud E. Smith, Creating Web Pages For Dummies, page 117

(Internet) Someone who uses the photo-sharing website Flickr.


Craigslister

(Internet) Someone who uses the Craigslist website.


computerist

To the beginning computerist, the printout of memory errors won't mean much. But it does indicate a problem in one of the memory modules.

1981, Eastern House Software, The Monkey Wrench II User's Guide

The natural question most often asked by novice computerists is, why buy one integrated package instead of several separate packages.

1984, Interface Age: Volume 9, Issues 7-12


YouTuber

(Internet) A user of the video-sharing website YouTube.

YouTuber and sister traditionalist Lacey Lynn commented on this video, extolling Faucheux and Collett because they had “red pilled me and I owe yall so much.

2019, Alexandra Minna Stern, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate


Nintendinitis

repetitive strain injury
repetitive strain injury

(informal, video games) A form of repetitive strain injury affecting frequent video gamers, often from excessive use of the d-pad on a game controller.


rototill

en-verb

rototill (third-person singular simple present rototills, present participle rototilling, simple past and past participle rototilled)

rototills (present singular third-person)
rototilling (participle present)
rototilled (participle past)
rototilled (past)

(software) To make extensive and pervasive changes to a piece of code without altering its functionality.


shadowcasting

A different shadowcasting arrangement results when light rays are oriented oblique to the picture plane. In this situation actual and bearing rays appear to vanish in perspective.

1979, Kevin Forseth, David Vaughan, Graphics for Architecture, page 191

(computer graphics) The generation of shadows from a three-dimensional model.


hextet

Each of the eight blocks in an IPv6 network address is a hextet.

(computing) A group of 16 bits, or four nibbles.


filemask

Specify a filemask of *.BMP to match bitmap image files.

(computing) A text pattern that matches certain filenames.


ADS

(video games) Initialism of aim down sights.


clickjack

clickjack (third-person singular simple present clickjacks, present participle clickjacking, simple past and past participle clickjacked)

clickjacks (present singular third-person)
clickjacking (participle present)
clickjacked (participle past)
clickjacked (past)

(Internet) To steal confidential information from a user who is browsing a website via clickjacking.


VMS

(computing) Initialism of Virtual Memory System: the operating system for the DEC VAX series of computers.


HAL

(software) Acronym of hardware abstraction layer.


HAL

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(fiction, computing) A homicidal computer, an artificial intelligence that acts similarly to the HAL 9000 featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey.


wikiality

en-noun

wikiality (usually uncountable, plural wikialities)

Blend of Wikipedia + reality, coined by Stephen Colbert 31 July 2006 on his show, The Colbert Report.

A group of undergraduates and alumni combated the backlash of "wikiality" and put their own spin on the facts about Cornell in an article about the University on the Web site Wikipedia.

2006 September 20, Felicia Daniels, “Wikipedia selects Cornell U. page as 'Featured Article'”, in University Wire

2007 January 21, Kevin Garcia, “Wikiality is not reality”, in The Brownsville Herald:

Yet, this is the wikiality("truth based on consensus rather than fact") of the world, I'm sorry, of America, today

2007 January 5, Matt Martin, “Are we best we can be?”, in The Lantern

Most important, here, Colbert calls attention to the Bush administration's cooption of wikiality: its continuous campaign to manipulate public perception.

2009, Jonathan Gray, Jeffrey P. Jones, Ethan Thompson, Satire TV: politics and comedy in the post-network era, NYU Press

(derogatory) The supposed reality described by Wikipedia articles, whose content is established by majority consensus.


VSS

(computer networking) virtual switching system


VSS

(computing) Microsoft Volume Snapshot Service


multipathing

network interface card
network interface card

(computing) A network facility providing fault tolerance and load-spreading for network interface cards, each interface being assigned a static "test" IP address for diagnostic purposes.


nonblocking

(computing theory) That does not block; allowing other tasks to proceed immediately rather than having to wait for completion.


pseudographics

Pseudographics is an inexpensive way to convey simple graphical information and should probably be used more widely in batch applications.

1991, Marvin D. Dunnette, Leaetta M. Hough, Harry Charalambos Triandis, Handbook of industrial and organizational psychology: Volume 2

(computing) An approximation of graphics achieved through the use of text characters.


hall of mirrors

hall of mirrors (plural halls of mirrors)

Does anyone know about the Hall of Mirrors effect in the game of DOOM? I have recently been making my own levels of doom and in some places the hall of mirrors effect is in full effect. It happens especially in my biggest rooms that are very complex.

1994, Josh Pearson, “DOOM hall of mirrors effect”, in bit.listserv.games-l (Usenet)

Quake 1, on the other hand, wouldn't run properly. Quake 1 1.09 3dfx failed to load, and Quake 1 1.09 RAVE was just ... wierd. Video adjustment was almost non-existent, and no matter what settings I chose (trashing Prefs and the texture cache between attempts) I either got a lock-up, or the screen wouldn't change resolution, or if I called up the Options from the main menu I would see nothing, and when the startup demo was running, it was all 'hall of mirrors' stuff. Completely unusable.

2000, Brains, “3dfx 1.0.1 + Voodoo3/2k + Quake 1 = blergh”, in comp.sys.mac.games.action (Usenet)

(video games, uncountable) A glitch in some three-dimensional games where a missing texture prevents part of the scene from being rendered correctly, causing a trail of previously rendered frames to appear instead.


dictionary attacker

dictionary attacker (plural dictionary attackers)

(Internet) A person or bot that carries out a dictionary attack


mainer

(video games) One who mainly plays as a specific character or on a specific side.


pseudographical

CompuServe, for example, offers members a pseudographical FTP facility for Internet access.

1996, Rand Dixon, Client/server and open systems

Surprise your recipients by adding some pseudographical glitz to your email signature.

2008, Philipp Lenssen, Google Apps Hacks, page 126

(computing) Having the appearance of graphics, though actually text-based.


dictionary attack

dictionary attack (plural dictionary attacks)

(cryptography) An attack that uses a list of words (from a dictionary) to try to guess passwords or decryption keys.

ordbogsangreb

An attack that uses a list of words from a dictionary


green screen

green screen (countable and uncountable, plural green screens)


green screen

en-verb

green screen (third-person singular simple present green screens, present participle green screening, simple past and past participle green screened)

green screens (present singular third-person)
green screening (participle present)
green screened (participle past)
green screened (past)

(transitive) Alternative form of greenscreen


unpacker

All packed malware consists of the unpacker code and packed data, which typically look like random data. The benefit of packed malware, from a malicious author's point of view, is that it cannot be analyzed until it is properly unpacked.

2007, David Harley, AVIEN malware defense guide for the Enterprise, page 408

(computing) A software program that decompresses code or data.


vishing

Vishing takes advantage of the trust that most people place in the telephone network.

2008, Gregory B. White, Dwayne Williams, Roger Davis, CompTIA Security+ All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (Exam SY0-201), page 36

Within just an hour, a new vishing infrastructure can be configured and put in place to launch a new attack.

2009, Ken Dunham, Mobile malware attacks and defense, page 188

Between 2006 and 2007, the number of vishing identity theft cases rose from 3 percent of theft to 40 percent (Source: Javelin Strategy & Research.)

2010, David A. Montague, Essentials of Online Payment Security and Fraud Prevention, page 85

But there has been less public outreach about similar new types of phone schemes, sometimes called vishing.

2014, Nick Wingfield, Swindlers Use Telephones, With Internet’s Tactics

A form of phishing using a telephone call to the prospective victim.


supranet

From supra- + net, coined at the turn of the 21st century by information technology analysis firm Gartner.

(computing) the fusion of the physical and the digital (‘virtual’) worlds.


roamable

(computing, telecommunications) Supporting roaming (the use of a network or service from different locations or devices).


renest

renest (third-person singular simple present renests, present participle renesting, simple past and past participle renested)

renests (present singular third-person)
renesting (participle present)
renested (participle past)
renested (past)

Renest/merge loops for more concurrent iterations.

1991, Kasra Barkeshli, John L. Volakis, Applications of the Conjugate Gradient FFT Method in Scattering and ...

(transitive, computing) To nest (code structures) again or differently.


OpenGL

(computer graphics) Open Graphics Library: a standard, cross-platform specification for generating 2D and 3D computer graphics.


BVH

bounding volume hierarchy
w:bounding volume hierarchy

(computing) Initialism of bounding volume hierarchy.


RTTI

(computing) Initialism of run-time type information.

(computing) Initialism of run-time type identification.


WPF

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface) Initialism of Windows Presentation Foundation (a graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications.)


TUIO

Tangible User Interface Objects
Tangible User Interface Objects#English

(computing) Initialism of Tangible User Interface Objects.


domain-specific language

en-noun

domain-specific language (plural domain-specific languages)

(programming) A programming/specification language that is dedicated to a particular problem domain, a particular problem representation/solution technique.

langage dédié

language dedicated to a particular problem domain


DTW

(computing) Dynamic Time Warping, a pattern matching algorithm


XTM

(computing) Initialism of XML topic map.


OWL

Web Ontology Language
Web Ontology Language#English

(computer languages) Initialism of Web Ontology Language.


SDG

SDG (countable and uncountable, plural SDGs)

(computing, uncountable) Initialism of single-display groupware.


NUI

natural user interface
natural user interface#English

(computing) Initialism of natural user interface.


PPTP

(computing) Initialism of point-to-point tunnelling protocol.


OSC

Open Sound Control
Open Sound Control#English

(computing) Initialism of Open Sound Control.

(Internet) Initialism of object show community.


(computing, dated) Intel 80386, 386 family


paletted

As long as your bitmap is paletted, most programs will reduce the palette down to the fewest colors. However, it may be a good idea to help it along by changing the bit depth to the lowest possible.

2004, Ralph Barbagallo, Wireless Game Development in Java with MIDP 2.0, page 304

Unfortunately, the Intel 2700G provides no hardware support for compressed paletted textures. If compressed paletted textures are used, they are internally expanded to their uncompressed representation.

2008, Oliver Deussen, Daniel Keim, Dietmar Saupe, Vision, modeling, and visualization 2008: proceedings, page 220


arcader

The arcaders have it easy. All they need to do is drop a quarter into a machine to find out how good the latest shoot 'em up game really is. But for the home computer owner, it's another story.

1983 August, Popular Mechanics, volume 160, number 2, page 88

Bruce Lee Lives will take even advanced arcaders hours to complete. Software Toolworks' Troy Heere offers some hints not found in the manual to help you get through the game a little faster.

Jerry Jewell was on the scene with Sirius' two most awesome arcaders. On-Line would arrive tomorrow. After the presentation, Jewell bragged to one of the competitors that one of his men might well be the world's best videogamer.


pixel shader

(computer graphics) A shader that operates on the level of individual pixels, used to generate complex visual effects.


fragment shader

fragment shader (plural fragment shaders)

(computer graphics, OpenGL) pixel shader


backseater

(Internet, video games) Synonym of back-seat gamer


Delete

(computing) A key that may be pressed to delete something (such as text or files) from a computer. The key also erases text from left to right, unlike the backspace key.

touche de suppression

a key that may be pressed to delete something


Shift

(computing) A modifier key whose main function is shifting between two or more functions of any of certain other keys (usually by pressing Shift and the other button simultaneously).


e-mailable

en-adj

e-mailable (comparative more e-mailable, superlative most e-mailable)

more e-mailable (comparative)
most e-mailable (superlative)

Minimizing a photo or graphic's physical size to no larger than 600 pixels in width will make them e-mailable. Most photos right off your digital camera are 1000s of pixels in width which makes for a very, very, very large file size.

2007, Judith Kallos, E-mail Etiquette Made Easy, page 13

(Internet) Capable of, or suitable for, being e-mailed.


denormal

From de- + normal? or from denormalized?

(computing theory, of a number) Smaller than the smallest normal number but larger than zero, thus serving to fill the underflow gap.


brusher

(Internet) An online seller who uses the fraudulent technique of brushing.


pikachurin

Named after Pikachu, a Pokémon character, + -in.

(biochemistry) A dystroglycan-interacting polysaccharide which has an essential role in the precise interactions between the photoreceptor ribbon synapse and the bipolar dendrites.


Rule 34

From the caption of a 2003 webcomic, later included in a list of “Rules of the Internet” originally circulated on 4chan by members of Anonymous, in which the rule was formulated as "if it exists, there is porn of it, no exceptions".

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Rule 34.

(Internet slang, fandom slang, informal) The proposition that there are pornographic depictions of anything and everything, especially as fan art on the Internet.


traffic shaping

(Internet) The technique of slowing down Internet packet flow rate by narrowing the bandwidth to avoid a possible system overload.


natural user interface

en-noun

natural user interface (plural natural user interfaces)

(computing) A user interface for a computer that is effectively invisible, or becomes invisible to its users with successive learned interactions.


Open Sound Control

(computing) A communication protocol among computers and multimedia devices, such as sound synthesizers, which is optimized for modern networking technology.


Pure Data

programming language
programming language

(computing) A visual programming language for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works.


Multi Input Gateway

(computing) An interface that receives input from an OSC device and forwards it to applications via Silverlight, Adobe Flash, etc.


TUI

Coordinate term: GUI

(computing, retronym) Initialism of text-based user interface or initialism of terminal user interface.

(computing) Initialism of tangible user interface.

(computing) Initialism of touch user interface.


DSI

(computer graphics) Initialism of diffused surface illumination.


MIG

Multi Input Gateway
Multi Input Gateway#English

(computing) Initialism of Multi Input Gateway.


CCV

Community Core Vision
Community Core Vision#English

(computing) Initialism of Community Core Vision.


WMV

Windows Media Video
w:Windows Media Video

(computing, video) Initialism of Windows Media Video.


WDM

Windows Driver Model
w:Windows Driver Model

(computing) Initialism of Windows Driver Model.


relative address

relative address (plural relative addresses)

(computer science) The location of something in computer memory expressed as an offset from the value of a register.


absolute address

absolute address (plural absolute addresses)

(computing) A numerical value that identifies a fixed location in real storage in terms of the number of bytes from the beginning, or in a peripheral device in terms of disks, sectors and bytes


IRQL

interrupt request
interrupt request#English

(computing) Initialism of interrupt request level.


IRP

(computing) Initialism of I/O request packet.


weighted graph

(graph theory) A graph that associates a weight (usually a real number) with every edge in the graph.


RTM

RTM (countable and uncountable, plural RTMs)

software engineering
software engineering

(software engineering) Initialism of release to manufacturing.


decompression bomb

decompression bomb (plural decompression bombs)

(computing) A usually malicious file with a very high compression ratio, thus expected to consume a large amount of memory and disk space when decompressed.


multihoming

(computing) A technique to increase the reliability of a network connection by means of additional, alternative network interfaces or IP addresses.


Punycode

Punycode is an encoding, or an escape scheme (depending on how you look at it), for a specific purpose: implementing Internationalized Domain Names (IDN).

2006, Jukka Korpela, Unicode Explained, O'Reilly Media, Inc., page 322

(computing) A mapping from Unicode to the simpler ASCII character set, intended for the representation of international domain names where Unicode is not available.


deindex

en-verb

deindex (third-person singular simple present deindexes, present participle deindexing, simple past and past participle deindexed)

deindexes (present singular third-person)
deindexing (participle present)
deindexed (participle past)
deindexed (past)

(computing, finance) To remove from an index.


blocklist

Every time I get spam in my inbox, I add the sender to my blocklist.

(computing) A list of websites or other material to be blocked.

danh sách cấm

(computing) A list or set of people or entities to be shunned or banned.

lista de prohibició

list or set of people or entities to be banned


kBps

(computing) Initialism of kilobytes per second.


Bps

(computing) Initialism of byte per second.


discussion room

en-noun

discussion room (plural discussion rooms)


pseudoclass

(computing, Internet, Cascading Style Sheets) A construct in code that behaves like a class but is not a true class.


pseudoelement

(computing, Internet, Cascading Style Sheets) An object in code that behaves like an HTML element but is not a true element.


blue link

In most wikis, a link to an existing page appears in blue text.

(Internet) A hyperlink displayed in blue, traditionally indicating that the user has not yet followed the link.

Beyond the satisfaction it provides linguistically and in terms of pure meanness, what makes “nepotism baby” so popular is that it also functions as a tool, a simple way for our brains to deconstruct the bigger idea of upward mobility in inequality. Every human is someone’s child, but not everyone’s parents are a blue link on Wikipedia.

2022 August 31, Alex Abad-Santos, “They hate to see a nepotism baby winning”, in Vox

(Internet, wiki jargon) A blue hyperlink that directs to an existing page of a wiki.


domino computer

domino computer (plural domino computers)

A mechanical computer built using domino tiles to represent logical operators, so that toppling certain dominos causes a "signal" to propagate.


nonexecuting

A nonexecuting program is the limp puppet without a hand, an empty shell. Slip a computer inside and it becomes a working software machine: an electric-powered information-transforming machine...

1998, David Hillel Gelernter, Machine beauty: elegance and the heart of technology

Program comments are nonexecuting statements that you add to a program for the purpose of documentation. Programmers use comments to leave notes for themselves and for others who might read their programs in the future.


renamer

(computing) A program or process that performs renaming.


refactorability

(computing) The degree or quality of being refactorable (possible to rewrite without changing the behaviour of the code).


multiaddress

The use of these arrays depends on using multiaddress instructions with a small number of address bits to specify each argument. Thus the size of register arrays is limited.

1987, Fredrick J. Hill, Gerald R. Peterson, Digital systems: hardware organization and design

(computing) Of or pertaining to more than one address in memory.


foistware

They can acquire viruses, worms, foistware, and back doors.

2003, William R. Cheswick, Steven M. Bellovin, Aviel D. Rubin, Firewalls and Internet security: repelling the wily hacker, page 241

Is it possible to block foistware using Proxomitron or Privoxy filters ?

2003, data64, “What browsers are vulnerable to drive-by download”, in alt.privacy.spyware (Usenet)

It is essential to check for spyware/hijackware/foistware.

2004, Sandi - Microsoft MVP, “won't go to typed-in URL”, in microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie5.browser (Usenet)

(computing, derogatory) Software that is installed without the user's knowledge or consent, often bundled with another product.


uncrunch

en-verb

uncrunch (third-person singular simple present uncrunches, present participle uncrunching, simple past and past participle uncrunched)

uncrunches (present singular third-person)
uncrunching (participle present)
uncrunched (participle past)
uncrunched (past)

Load (but do not run) the BASIC program you want to uncrunch.

Thus when you invoke the crunched version of emacs, for instance, it actually loads the uncruncher, which then loads and uncrunches the rest of emacs.

1989, Ranjit Bhatnagar, “Saving Disk Space (was Re: Relying on ARP)”, in comp.sys.amiga (Usenet)

Presumably, having uncrunched the data from the compressed archive, it's faster to reload the uncrunched version if it's needed again.

2002, Mark Blunden, “Temple District”, in alt.games.baldurs-gate (Usenet)


cable internet

Internet connectivity received through coaxial cables, usually via the same medium as cable television.

kabelinternet

internet connectivity received through coaxial cables


ADF

(software) Initialism of Application Development Framework (of Oracle)


Game of Life

A cellular automaton devised by mathematician John Horton Conway, consisting of a grid of cells that are either "alive" or "dead" and grow or diminish based on the number of adjacent living cells.


read-only access

(computing) A permission to access files or directories where the user is only allowed to read or view, not to make changes.

lesaðgangur

permission where the user cannot make changes


ECM

en-noun

ECM (countable and uncountable, plural ECMs)

enterprise content management
w:Enterprise content management

(computing) Initialism of enterprise content management.


cdr

Acronym of contents of the decrement part of register number. Note that it was based on original hardware and has no meaning today.

acronym

The elements of a list are the successive cars along the "cdr chain." That is, the elements are the car, the car of the cdr, the car of the cdr of the cdr, etc.

2000, Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, J Strother Moore, Computer-aided reasoning: an approach

(programming) The second part of a cons in Lisp. The remainder of a list when the first element is removed.


bucket list

From bucket + list.
Sense 1 (“list of tasks arising during a meeting”) may allude to a notional bucket in which tasks to be dealt with later are placed. Sense 2 (“list of things to accomplish before one’s death”) refers to kick the bucket (“to die”), bucket in this sense possibly referring to a beam to which a pig is hung by its heels after it has been slaughtered (possibly from Old French buquet (“balance; trebuchet”)). It was coined by the American and British screenwriter Justin Zackham in 1999 when he drew up “Justin’s List of Things to Do before I Kick the Bucket” which he shortened to “Justin’s Bucket List”. The first item on his list was to have a screenplay produced at a major Hollywood studio. After a few years, it occurred to him that the notion of a “bucket list” could be the basis for a film, so he wrote a screenplay about two dying men racing to complete their own bucket lists with the time they had left, which became the film The Bucket List (2007). The term was then popularized by the film.

平生夢想單

a list of things to accomplish before one’s death

lista rzeczy do zrobienia przed śmiercią

Using a bucket list structure[…], the program sorts each incoming word serially, constructing a list within each of 256 buckets for good words of a given alphabetic range […]

1960 July 25, J. C. Olney, Feat, an Inventory Program for Information Retrieval (FN-4018), Santa Monica, Calif.: System Development Corporation; quoted in Mary Elizabeth Stevens, “Operational Considerations”, in Automatic Indexing: A State-of-the-Art Report (National Bureau of Standards Monograph; 91), Washington, D.C.: National Bureau of Standards, United States Department of Commerce, 30 March 1965, reissued February 1970, →OCLC, page 170

In place of direct storage in the block we might substitute pointers to linked bucket lists of the elements having the same hash addresses. After hashing B#x5F;x and retrieving the pointer to the appropriate bucket list, we search the list for B#x5F;x, and if not found, add it to the end of the list.

1975, Terrence W. Pratt, “Data”, in Programming Languages: Design and Implementation, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, page 83

(computer science) A data structure containing buckets used in a hashing algorithm.


cddr

(computing) Cdr of the cdr in Lisp. The remainder of a list if the first two elements are removed.


cadr

If we let x denote the tree (1 2 3), then the car of x is 1, the cdr of x is (2 3), the cadr of x is 2, the caddr of x is 3, and the cdddr of x is nil.

2000, Matt Kaufmann, Panagiotis Manolios, J. Strother Moore, Computer-Aided Reasoning: An Approach

(programming) Car of the cdr in Lisp. The second element in a list.


caddr

Contraction of car of the cdr of the cdr.

Following the SEL in the control list are two elements (the cadr and caddr of the C list), both of which are themselves lists of instructions.

1991, Peter M. Kogge, The Architecture of Symbolic Computers, page 156

For example, in a procedure that manipulates a list data stream, we might know that the mode of the car of the list (that is the current message) is the same mode as the cadr (second message), caddr (third message), etc.

1994, Evan Tick, Giancarlo Succi, Implementations of Logic Programming Systems, page 239

In effect, lazy evaluation would force things to happen in the proper order: The car of output is the first prompt. The cadr of output is the first square, a value that requires evaluation of the car of input. The caddr of output is the second prompt.

2004, Scott, Programming Principles Of Mulltimedia Systems, page 608

(programming) Car of the cdr of the cdr in Lisp. The third element in a list.


lowercasify

en-verb

lowercasify (third-person singular simple present lowercasifies, present participle lowercasifying, simple past and past participle lowercasified)

lowercasifies (present singular third-person)
lowercasifying (participle present)
lowercasified (participle past)
lowercasified (past)

Well, actually, my host is REALLY called "X", but I've already been advised to lowercasify it.

1984 September 15, John Woods, “Local site "x"”, in net.news.newsite (Usenet)

To think of it, propably I need to a) add a section about testing into smtpserver(8) man-page, and also b) lowercasify the lookup key of "aliases".

2000 November 18, Matti Aarnio, “ORBS Problem”, in muc.lists.zmailer (Usenet)

Press it again (or press it when there's already a period there) and it will remove any punctuation and spaces, insert a single space, and lowercasify the following word (unless it's a word that should always be capitalized)

2006 July 9, Keith F. Lynch, “Momentarily verbal (was Re: Talking of old jokes)”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom (Usenet)

(informal, computing) To make lower case.


arrow key

(computing) Any of a set of keyboard keys marked with directional arrows, used for navigation through documents and lists etc.


TINLC

(Internet, humorous) Initialism of There is no lumber cartel.


nonpooled

This method opens a new, nonpooled connection to the database. ASP.NET checks the queue for notifications using this connection.

2010, Matthew MacDonald, Adam Freeman, Mario Szpuszta, Pro ASP.Net 4 in C# 2010, page 509

(computing, of computer resources) not grouped together, not put together


image macro

What were the various image macros? ... [img-foo]: See Image Macro. A list of official [img-foo]s are above, but any common image that's used often can replace foo. [img-motorcycle.jpg] for instance.

2001 August 25, anotherone, “Something Awful forums FAQ By anotherone”, in http://anotherone0.tripod.com/, archived from the original on 2001-08-25

That would make such a good image macro, could i use it sometime?

2001 September 25, Guest, “Meddling kids!”, in 3D Realms Forums, archived from the original on 2007-02-07

2001 October 22, <deleted user>, “Ill advised image macros never intended for use”, in Something Awful Forums, retrieved 2013-09-11

Now, the term Image Macro refers to any frequently used image, usually with text proclaiming "YOU SUCK AT THE INTERNET!" or something.

2002 February 22, anotherone, “Something Awful forums FAQ By anotherone”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2001-08-25

(Internet) An image with superimposed text, often humorous.


wiki magic

The phenomenon of a wiki taking shape by being constructively edited by many people.


thread mode

The phenomenon of a wiki being used for discussions.


bugmail

I noticed this software change in my bugmail.

My inbox is flooded with bugmail; I need to set up a filter for it.

A quantity of e-mail messages announcing changes made in a bug tracker.


natural language processing

en-noun

natural language processing (uncountable)

A field of computer science and linguistics concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages, especially computational analysis and processing of large amounts of natural language data.

自然語言處理

field concerning interaction with computers using natural languages

traitement automatique du langage naturel


I see what you did there

Book a tabla now (te-he) www.electromancer.com/artists/squishmusic [Yes, very good, I see what you did there - Ed].

Leonard Hofstadter: Of course, we're in different departments. He's an engineer and I'm an experimental physicist. You know, one of guys who examines the building blocks of creation and says: "Hello, maker of the universe. I see what you did there. Good one."

2010 November 4, Bill Prady, Steven Molaro & Steve Holland, "The Apology Insufficiency", episode 4-7 of The Big Bang Theory, 00:05:03-00:05:19

Wait. I see what you did there. You turned my comment around on me so that it would be an insult. You are one clever gal, Dr. Rodgers.

2011, Grant R. Jeffrey, Alton L. Gansky, The Scroll, WaterBrook Press, page 103

Oh, I see what you did there! You made a little "bacon" joke at moi's expense. You got a death wish or something, buster?!

2011 November 19, “Fast chat: Miss Piggy of 'The Muppets'”, in Newsday

(informal, humorous) An expression used to point out that another person's joke or cleverness has been recognized or understood, either to acknowledge its cleverness or alternatively to communicate a lack of amusement.


citation needed

From a tag, first created in June 2005, used on the English Wikipedia website to mark statements in articles that require verification.

I pass the Museo del Bargello, a former army barracks and prison, it is now home to masterpieces by Michelangelo, Donatello, Vincenzo Gemito and Robert Mapplethorpe [citation needed].

2013, Dan T. Alighieri [pseudonym], “Prologue”, in Dan’s Inferno: A Parody, London: Michael O’Mara Books, page 7

I have learned recently, where I can't remember, that books made of scrolls of papyrus were cut into pages and enclosed in wooden covers. Books like this were in circulation at the time. For now, just like Wikipedia, we will mark this: "citation needed."

2013, Phil[lip D.] Johnson, “My Favorite Event as Told by Mark”, in Funny Stuff in the Bible: A Field Trip in the Bible Library, Eugene, Or.: Resource Publications, Wipf and Stock, page 91

You know, every time I hear their stories [of near-death experiences] I just want to say "citation needed", because all the stuff they're saying, the only people who believe it happen to be the ones in their circles.

2013 December 4, Hemant Mehta, “Atheists, there is PROOF of Heaven!”, in YouTube, retrieved 2017-02-06

Euclid’s solution was simply to take parallel lines for granted and add them in as a fifth postulate. [...] In The Elements, the first four postulates are stated in simple and obvious statements, together amounting to only thirty-four words. The fifth postulate alone requires thirty-five words. This was the ancient Greek equivalent of ‘citation needed’.

2014, Matt Parker, “Shapes: Now in 3D”, in Things to Make and Do in the Fourth Dimension: A Mathematician’s Journey through Narcissistic Numbers, Optimal Dating Algorithms, at Least Two Kinds of Infinity, and More, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 92

Do you struggle to keep up with all the great podcasts and video content The Spinoff puts out every week? Luckily, we have a solution – introducing Rec Room, The Spinoff’s latest and some are saying greatest [citation needed] newsletter.

2020 August 17, “Subscribe to Rec Room, Our Newsletter for Video, Podcasts and Other Favourite Stuff”, in The Spinoff, archived from the original on 2020-09-29

> Democrats want a centralized autocratic government / [citation needed] Meanwhile, Trump's autocratic tendencies have become legendary after his one and only term. / > Democrats want a dictatorial leader (as evidenced by their refusal to hold their leader(s) to any Constitutional or legal standards) / [citation needed] Meanwhile, Banana Republicans just spent four years displaying clear anti-democratic tendencies and support for a rogue executive who regularly flouted laws, norms, and Congressional oversight.

2020 November 7, Nadegda, “How to defeat a coup attempt”, in talk.politics.misc (Usenet)

[...] [Nick] Kroll cited The Bible (citation needed) as dictating, "Thou shalt have a Goldberg [i.e., Evan Goldberg] that one grows up with, and then writes TV and movies with." Don’t question it.

2020 December 1, Dennis Perkins, “Nick Kroll Got Some Helpful Direction from Harry Styles on Popping the Question”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2020-12-01

(originally Internet slang, chiefly humorous) Used to designate an assertion or other statement as false, inaccurate, or requiring verification.

verwysing benodig

used to designate an assertion or other statement as false, inaccurate, or requiring verification


reordrant

/ɹiːˈɔɹdɹənt/

From reorder + -ant. By analogy with reentrant.

(computing, typography) Of a character (usually a vowel in Indic scripts): input after another character, but intended to display before it when text is rendered.


From Unix operating systems, where /dev (the Unix directory containing device files) contains a null entry representing no device.

It's possible to suppress the compiler's warnings by redirecting standard error to /dev/null.

To avoid problems when running the script, the output of man man was sent to /dev/null instead of sending it to a real terminal. This has the effect of discarding the already formatted text of the retrieved page.

1980 October, Luis F. Cabrera, “A Performance Evaluation Study of UNIX”, in Harold Joseph Highland, editor, Computer Performance Evaluation Users Group 16th Meeting (National Bureau of Standards Special Publication; 500-65), Washington: Government Printing Office, page 235

[...] we reserve file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 by opening /dev/null and duplicating the file descriptor returned. /dev/null is a pseudo-driver that forces read to return 0 and write to return as if the entire amount requested had been written. This makes library routines that use file descriptors 0, 1, and 2 harmless.

1993, Stephen A. Rago, UNIX System V Network Programming, Pearson, page 89

Continuing in the Unix tradition of treating everything as a file, you can redirect a command's output to the null file, /dev/null. The null file consumes all output sent to it, as if /dev/null is a black hole star.

2005, Eric Foster-Johnson with John C. Welch and Micah Anderson, Beginning Shell Scripting, John Wiley & Sons, page 263

(computing) A device file, present in Unix and Unix-like operating systems, that discards all data written to it and yields no output.


friendly URL

(Internet) A URL that has a simple structure and is easy to read and understand.


Poe's law

Formulated in 2005 by a user named “Nathan Poe” on the website christianforums.com, originally in the context of creationism.

If you accept Poe's Law, you hold that religious believers are indistinguishable from their parodies.

2013, Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse, Why We Argue (And How We Should) […], Routledge, page 130

But because the internet has changed in innumerable ways since 2005, expanding and accelerating all the while, Poe's Law applies to more and more internet interactions.

2017 June 5, Emma Grey Ellis, “Can't Take a Joke? That's Just Poe's Law, 2017's Most Important Internet Phenomenon”, in Wired, →ISSN

It's not just digital media tools that amplify the ambivalence of humor online. The familiar combination of context collapse and Poe's Law is equally impactive.

2018, Whitney Phillips, Ryan M. Milner, The Ambivalent Internet […], John Wiley & Sons, page 121

The observation that, on the Internet, without a clear indication of the author's intent, it is impossible to tell the difference between sincere extremism and a parody of extremism.


death clock

Keene had a death clock running, counting the days before his final breath, and his work plan was set to meet that last deadline, with a typical project management rigor.

2012, Michel Bruneau, The Emancipating Death of a Boring Engineer

A computer program or website displaying a countdown to a person's predicted date and time of death.


slippy map

(web design, cartography) An interactive digital map with pan and zoom features.


mald

en-adjective

mald (comparative malder, superlative maldest)

malder (comparative)
maldest (superlative)

Blend of mad + bald. See malding for further etymology.

So bald, so mald.

(slang, video games, uncommon, neologism) Extremely angry, especially as a result of losing a video game.


mald

en-verb

mald (third-person singular simple present malds, present participle malding, simple past and past participle malded)

malds (present singular third-person)
malding (participle present)
malded (participle past)
malded (past)

He's actually malding.
He is so mad that his hair is legitimately falling out.

In his "hardest game" series, he plays malding games, named for the rage they provoke in those who play them.

2021 May 24, Charlie Pugh, “The art of misery: how Ludwig made a career from failing”, in The Courier, number 1414, Newcastle upon Tyne, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30

[…] “Coomers malding PepeLaugh,” […] The second comment, written by HarleyJ, insinuates that “coomers” (a term used to refer to an individual that overly sexualizes things) are angered by her actions, […]

2021 August 10, Dylan Maroney, quoting a comment by HarleyJ, Livestreaming Vico: Imagination and the Ecology of Literacy in Online Gaming, Georgia State University, page 36

I make money in my sleep, got you hatin' on me

2022 January 16, Amouranth (lyrics and music), “Down Bad”

Malding in my chat while you're tryna take a peep

It reminds me of how people in the alpha for WoW malded that the game penalized them for playing the game too much with a 50% XP penalty if their character was exhausted, so instead Blizzard decided to nerf all XP gains by 50%, and then give you a “bonus” (rested XP) that doubled your XP gains back to its original amount, and people praised it.

2022 July 18, Sentenzà, “I think Jailer heroic was nerfed too hard”, in Blizzard.com

(slang, video games) To become extremely angry, especially as a result of losing a video game.


click through

click through (third-person singular simple present clicks through, present participle clicking through, simple past and past participle clicked through)

clicks through (present singular third-person)
clicking through (participle present)
clicked through (participle past)
clicked through (past)

(Internet) To click on a link in order to move to another page.


qwerty syndrome

Named after the QWERTY keyboard layout, a popular standard despite not necessarily being the most optimal.

Nowhere is the QWERTY syndrome stronger than in computers […]

2000, Jason Kroll, “Readers' Choice Awards”, in Linux Journal

(idiomatic, computing, technology) The condition of favoring entrenched and inferior technologies or practices over superior ones.


content farm

Just as content farms are engineered to game search engines, an increasing number of sites are designed to game social networks.

2014, Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company

(Internet) A website that contains low-quality, search-engine optimized writing, which may be aggregated from elsewhere.

內容農場

website which contains low-quality SEO writing


ENS

Coordinate term: DNS

The components involved in ENS loosely mimic those of DNS, with the difference that they are implemented as smart contracts within the Ethereum network.

2019, Santiago Palladino, Ethereum for Web Developers, Apress, page 267

(cryptocurrencies) Initialism of Ethereum Name Service.


quadruple-click

(computing) The action of pushing the button on a mouse four times in quick succession.


quadruple-click

quadruple-click (third-person singular simple present quadruple-clicks, present participle quadruple-clicking, simple past and past participle quadruple-clicked)

quadruple-clicks (present singular third-person)
quadruple-clicking (participle present)
quadruple-clicked (participle past)
quadruple-clicked (past)

(computing) To push the button on a mouse four times in quick succession.


quintuple-click

(computing) The action of pushing the button on a mouse five times in quick succession.


quintuple-click

quintuple-click (third-person singular simple present quintuple-clicks, present participle quintuple-clicking, simple past and past participle quintuple-clicked)

quintuple-clicks (present singular third-person)
quintuple-clicking (participle present)
quintuple-clicked (participle past)
quintuple-clicked (past)

(computing) To push the button on a mouse five times in quick succession.


YAML

A retronym: originally Yet Another Markup Language, now reinterpreted as YAML Ain't Markup Language.

(computer languages, file format) A human-readable data serialization format that takes concepts from XML and from various programming languages.


MMI

(computing) Initialism of man-machine interface.


data store

(computing) A data repository of a set of integrated objects.


DTD

en-noun

DTD (countable and uncountable, plural DTDs)

(computing, telecommunications) Initialism of Data Transfer Device.

(computing) Initialism of Detailed Timing Descriptor.

Document Type Definition
w:Document Type Definition

(computing, publication) Initialism of Document Type Definition.


quylthulg

Everything was going fine until I found a long long hallway with two titans trapped behind a quylthulg.

1999, rocher, “YACD, my rogue again. Advice wanted/needed (LONG)”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet)

- some monster descriptions corrected, and a few other changes: quylthulgs are no longer evil, as befits an entirely brainless creature which knows nothing except that it must bring help to protect itself.

2000, Jonathan Ellis, “New version of vanilla-290 "edits" patch released!”, in rec.games.roguelike.angband (Usenet)

Find something worth a lot that you can handle, and clone it. Young dragons if you have a SD weapon, various high-level undead (wights, wraiths, lichs, vampires) if you have speed, rotting quylthulgs as a source for those high-level undead, iridescent beetles if you have free action […]

2002, Eli the Bearded, “Random questions on mid level play”, in rec.games.roguelike.moria (Usenet)

(video games) In some roguelike games, a type of fictional invisible monster that summons other monsters.


GNU GPL

GNU General Public License
w:GNU General Public License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of GNU General Public License.


LGPL

Lesser General Public License
w:GNU Lesser General Public License

(computing, copyright law) Initialism of Lesser General Public License.


MIT license

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(law, software) A free-software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


STT

(computing) Initialism of speech to text.


404 page

From 404 (error message) + page (“webpage”).

The website must be down; I got a 404 page.

(Internet) The result of trying to follow a broken link within a website.


CD key

A serial key of a program to be installed from a compact disc.


serial key

(computing) A string of characters or equivalent access code that must be input into a program in order to activate it.


kinetic novel

From KineticNovel, a brand of the Japanese software publishing company Visual Arts.

(video games) A visual novel in which the player does not interact with the story.


visual novel

Calque of Japanese ビジュアルノベル (bijuaru noberu), from English visual + novel

cal

(video games) An interactive fiction video game of a style originated in Japan, consisting primarily of narration illustrated by anime-style images.


dwell time

en-noun

dwell time (usually uncountable, plural dwell times)

The length of time that a thing or person remains in a given state.

(Internet, marketing) The amount of time that a user spends on a certain page or site.


Amazon Associates Web Service
Amazon Associates Web Service

(computing) Amazon Associates Web Service


Common Gateway Interface

(Internet) A protocol for calling external software via a Web server to deliver dynamic content.


Server Side Include

Server Side Include (plural Server Side Includes)

A Server Side Include, on the other hand, is a simple command you place within an HTML page that adds functionality—such as reading an external file, inserting the current date or last file-modification date, […]

2002, Rafe Colburn, Sams Teach Yourself CGI in 24 Hours, Sams Publishing, page 443

(computing) A server-side directive in a certain scripting language used on the World Wide Web, allowing the contents of external files to be included at specified points within a web page.


UID

unique identifier
unique identifier#English

(computing) Abbreviation of unique identifier.

(computing) Abbreviation of user ID (identifier/identification number).


IRR

Internet Routing Registry
w:Internet Routing Registry

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Routing Registry.


WTP

(computing, eclipse, Web) Initialism of Web Tools Platform.


RDDL

Resource Directory Description Language#English

(computing) Initialism of Resource Directory Description Language.


Resource Directory Description Language

(computing) An extension of XHTML, designed to allow both humans and machines to find resources associated with a given namespace.


CHILL

CCITT High Level Language
CCITT High Level Language#English

(computing) Acronym of CCITT High Level Language.