Top 50 Funniest Terms used in the Online World
- all your base are belong to us - An incoherent line from a Japanese video game called Zero Wing, it became a geek hipster...
- angry garden salad - Slang for a poorly designed Web site GUI with incorrect code behind it (so that if...
- assicons - A funny take on emoticons, "assicons" (like boobiecons) involve another body part....
- boobiecons - Another funny take on emoticons, "boobiecons" (like assicons) involve another body...
- cappuccino cowboy - A nickname for a person who just has to have a Starbucks coffee or other type of roadie...
- chillaxin - Slang for chilling and relaxing, as in "What up? Not much, just chillaxin."
- chips and salsa - Chips refers to computer hardware. Salso refers to software. For example you may hear...
- cluster funk - When a multitude of things go wrong on a computer system, at the same time, because...
- cornea gumbo - A visually noisy or over-designed Web site, usually with too many graphics and too...
- crapplet - A badly written or totally useless Java applet, as in, "I just wasted thirty minutes...
- dancing baloney - Gratuitous animated GIFs and other Web special effects that are used to impress clients....
- digital doppelganger - Another name for your online persona, for example, the founder of NetLingo's "digital...
- double geeking - When you use two computers at the same time. "Triple-geeking" is using three computers...
- easter egg - A hidden element written into a program or placed on a Web site. Basically, it is...
- eating your own dog food - When a computer company uses its own software for internal projects, it is said to...
- echo chamber - Traditionally, an "echo chamber" describes a group of media outlets that tend to parrot...
- fat finger - To make an error in typing, as in, "Oops, I didn't see that misspelling. I must have...
- flame war - When an online discussion degenerates into a series of personal attacks against the...
- fortune cookie - An inane, witty, or profound comment that can be found around the net. When you come...
- fram - Slang for spam sent to you by your friends or family.
- gingerbread house - Slang for a company that hires NCGs, places them in high-pressure positions, but pays...
- grok - To "get it" or to understand something so completely that you absorb it and practically...
- hairball - Any tangled mess. Often refers to poorly written computer code with Microsoft's name...
- ID10T - An acronym, actually an expression, used among tech support personnel to disguise...
- meatloaf - Unlike spam, which is unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE), meatloaf is unsolicited...
- middle school dance - Slang for a situation in which two pieces of equipment are both waiting for the other...
- ohnosecond - The fraction of time it takes to realize you've just goofed; for example, right after...
- open your kimono - Silicon Valley slang for revealing your business idea to someone after he or she signs an NDA.
- PITA - As in, "What a PITA," it is an acronym used primarily in texting, online chat, instant...
- plonk - To kill (or filter-out) a particular person's messages from the newsgroups you read....
- POTATO - This is what's known as a hilarious acronym to describe "People Over Thirty Acting...
- prairie dogging - In geek speak it is slang for when someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube...
- rasterbator - A designer who's become a compulsive digital manipulator or Photoshop abuser, as in...
- router droppings - The inclusions added to e-mail messages when a server or recipient cannot be found....
- salmon day - Workplace slang that refers to the experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream...
- scribe tribes - Netizens who publish their journals, diaries, and daily ramblings on the Web and organize...
- script kiddies - In general, this is slang for people who find tools on the Internet and use those...
- seagull manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps over everything, and then leaves.
- shareware girl - Office jargon for the coolest girl in the company, the one that all the programmers...
- Siliconia - Nicknames for cities and areas with a heavy concentration of high-tech firms. "Siliconia"...
- spam - An e-mail message sent to a large number of people without consent, also known as...
- splog - "Splogs" are amateur blogs with mostly stolen content that are published by spurious...
- time porn - Time porn refers to popular entertainment in general, anything that sucks up your...
- turklebaum - Based on a phony e-mail message about a fellow named Turklebaum (who allegedly died...
- velveeta - To cross-post to an excessive number of newsgroups.
- walled garden - A favorite term by those in the industry, a "walled garden" refers to certain Web...
- wallhumper - Office slang for a person who raises their hip in an effort to swipe their electronic...
- warez - This word is considered by many users to be a catchall term for software which includes...
- word-of-mouse - Gossip or information spread via the net, usually through e-mail, blogs or newsgroup postings.
- zen mail - E-mail messages that arrive with no text in the message body.
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