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These definitions are copyrighted by Eric S. Raymond as seen in The Jargon File - The New Hacker's Dictionary: EMACS, good thing, hacker ethic.

These definitions are copyrighted by Gareth Branwyn as seen in Jargon Watch: A Pocket Dictionary for the Jitterati: boil the ocean, cornea gumbo, crapplet, cybernoir, dark fiber, geekosphere, monitor pets, prairie dogging, rasterbator, SITCOMS. For more funny office jargon, get a copy of his book: Jargon Watch: A Pocket Dictionary for the Jitterati, by Gareth Branwyn, San Francisco, CA: HardWired, 1997.

The next definitions are copyrighted and used with permission of smartcomputing.com: Gnapster, GNOME, Gnutella, UN*X, USB, wireless bitmap, WML.

These definitions are copyrighted by INT Media Group, Inc. as seen on Webopedia.com: Apache, ASP, CBT, CDPD, DBMS, docking station, DOS, DSS, filter, fixed wireless, hexadecimal, instant messaging, Internet telephony, IoS, Javascript, JDBC, mainframe, MS-DOS, multi-user, Napster, network computing, ODBC, OFX, OOP (Object-Oriented Programming), OPS, P3P, personal computer, piracy, PKI, pull, push, RDF, server farm, smurf, supercomputer. Also see: Computer & Internet Dictionary 3rd Edition, by Philip E. Margolis, Random House, 1999.

*The asterisked definitions in the Dictionary are copyrighted and used with permission by http://www.whatis.com and TechTarget Inc.: analog, chip, cipher, computer, DCE, demoscene, device, digital, distributed computing, dogcow, dongle, DRM, hertz, NAP, open source, ROM, socket, stack, switch, wallpaper. Also see: The Whatis.com Encyclopedia of Technology Terms, Que Publishing, 2000. Information in the bats definition appeared in "Technology Review" (January/February 2001, p 56).

Information in the December 12, 1991 definition was heard on NPR, National Public Radio.

Information in the domain name definition appeared in a "Los Angeles Times" article "Newest Suffixes Help to Increase Net's Population," by Christine Frey (February 11, 2002).

Information in the e-mail definition was seen in a Publishing Poynters e-newsletter by Dan Poynter, visit www.parapublishing.com. Information in evernet appeared in "Fortune" (November 27, 2000, p 95).

Information in the Japanese smileys appeared in a "New York Times" article "Happy in the East ( -- ) or Smiling :-) in the West," by Andrew Pollack (August 12, 1996).

Information in the Siliconia definition comes from Keith Dawson and the Jargon Scout , an irregular feature in the newsletter Tasty Bits from the Technology Front Information in start-up appeared in a "CFO article "From Suing to Wooing" by Aliz Nyberg (December 2001, p 25).

Information in the wireless tip appeared in a "Los Angeles Times" article "A Wired Nation Where Wireless Doesn't Rule" by Michael A. Hiltzik (October 19, 2000).

Information in the English definition is from University of California at Berkeley, School of Information Management & Systems, 2000.

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