GJ - Good job, often used in online gaming when a teammate performs anact benefitting his team, such as killing an opponent or enabling thatkill GG - Good game, used at or near the conclusion of a gaming match Similar to, but not quite the same as an Internet trollįUBAR - ~censored~ up beyond all recognition / repair (from military slang pronounced "foo-bar")įUD - Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (the purposeful spread of misinformation) Device or hardware that is at the end of its product life cycle.įlamer - Someone who makes inflammatory, abusive or directly offensivecomments. Refers to hardware that is broken on delivery.ĮOL - End of Life. Gibson used the word todescribe a virtual world of computer networks that his cyberpunk heroes'jacked into'ĭILLIGAF/D/S - Does it look like I give a flip / ~censored~ / damn / ~love~ĭOA - Dead on arrival. Science fiction author William Gibsonpopularized the term in his novel Neuromancer. Used to change the subject of conversation.ĪYBABTU (also abbreviated as AYB) - All your base are belong to us (from the video game Zero Wing)īlog - Also known as web log or an online journalīot - Any type of automated software in chatrooms and web-cataloging softwareīump - Increment (For example, C's ++ operator.)or a backronym for "Bring Up My Post"Ĭrawl - To retrieve a web page along with the hyperlinks that reference itĬrapplet - A poorly written computer applicationĬyber (prefix) - A term used to connect the subsequent word loosely to the world of computers or the Internet or sex over a computerĬyberspace - Virtual reality, the Internet, the World Wide Web, andother kinds of computer systems. The most common, less common and plain rare acronyms that you will come across on IRCĪFAICR/S/T - As far as I can recall / remember / see / telĪNFSCD - And Now For Something Completely Different.
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