Hacker Slang
Hacker Slang
(OP)
Since we're talking about language, I found this posting from Microsoft regarding the slang you may come across in computer circles. I'll admit, I knew most of these already, but I guess I'm starting to get too old and uncool to have known them all.
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Edward L. Klein
Pipe Stress Engineer
Houston, Texas
"All the world is a Spring"
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RE: Hacker Slang
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Leet-English Translator:
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/leet.php
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
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Chris
Sr. Mechanical Designer, CAD
SolidWorks 05 SP3.1 / PDMWorks 05
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Remember the good old hacker? He who named the Apache server (after "a patch") and named a CD burning program "Nero" (burning ROM). That is creative hacker language! There are hundreds of such examples. But this abuse of equipment and human intellect has no value - at least not for me.
Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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rmw
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That Micro$oft page is just kids' stuff.
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(Hey, at least *I* know what I just said.)
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Regards,
An apathetic slacker Gen-X'r
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I used to have to go to the Web cafe to print and send e-mails, and the only room they had WAS the game room. I was always stuck between two kids wearing heasets (and still finding it necessary to scream). It's a wonder I made it through that school year at all...
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By the time I came along, the VTs' days were numbered and Macs were the hot new thing. So they didn't bother locking up the VT100 rooms, and we would sometimes sleep there in the summer for the air conditioning.
Hg of the BITNET generation
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I must admit this is the first I've seen of this new slang. What is the advantage? Is it faster to type on cell phone when sending text message?
RE: Hacker Slang
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
This article suggests that one origin may have been to get around banned words (like "hacker") on the BBS.
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