Internet slang Internet slang ABEND or absent by enforced 'Net deprivation is hacker slang used to explain to fellow netizens (especially on USENET) that one will be losing (or has not had) Internet access for some time for reasons outside one's control. Possible reasons for using the expression include computer downtime, loss of Internet service provider or other connection problems, moving house or illness, or an external person (such as a parent). ...more on Wikipedia about "Absent by 'Net deprivation"
AOLese, also known as AIMspeak, consists of slang that users of the AOL (see America Online) Internet service have developed, utilized and were once specific only to the AOL service itself. ...more on Wikipedia about "AOLese"
B1ff is type of internet slang that was created in the early days of the Internet by groups who felt they were being watched by government officials or corporations. This was a major step into full 1337 (Leet), however they originally had different purposes. B1ff, which only changes words only enough so a program looking for certain words doesn't find them, whereas 1337 was created to prevent non-1337 humans from reading text. ...more on Wikipedia about "B1ff"
Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL) is the informal, slightly tongue-in-cheek title given to a respected individual in the open source development community who sets general directions and makes final calls in certain situations within the scope of a given project. ...more on Wikipedia about "Benevolent Dictator for Life"
The Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH), a fictional character created by Simon Travaglia, is a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on lusers (his colleagues, bosses and anyone who gets in his way). ...more on Wikipedia about "BOFH"
Channel BT is a euphemism for the illegal downloading of television shows via the peer to peer network BitTorrent or other file sharing networks. It was popularised as a term in multiple forums in Australia (most notably the Australian Broadband Forum website Whirlpool) to signify people were using peer to peer networks to download and watch United States television shows many months or even years prior to their release on local television stations, as many U.S. television shows are shown in other countries six to twelve months later than in the U.S., if at all. ...more on Wikipedia about "Channel BT"
In Internet slang, a DFU, or Dumb Fucking User, is an acronym used by IT personnel to describe errors by the end-user related to misuse or poor understanding of the basic principles of computer operation. It can be used in expressions such as "It must be a DFU error", and is also conveniently used to openly mock the end-user if a fellow IT support staff member is present on the premises ("Sir/Madam, this is a very bad case of DFU error you have now"). ...more on Wikipedia about "DFU (Internet slang)"
Diablospeak refers to a series of terms, abbreviations, and acronyms used within the Diablo II computer game and its expansion pack Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. ...more on Wikipedia about "Diablospeak"
DQN (ドキュン dokyun) is a Japanese idiom, typically found in use on 2channel (2ch for short) and english 2ch-style discussion boards, such as 4-ch . ...more on Wikipedia about "DQN"
The term e-penis or e-peen is a term commonly used throughout the internet. Rooted in the common male ...more on Wikipedia about "E-penis"
The "Freedom Pledge" was a phrase coined on a Libertarian radio show/ podcast, Free Talk Live on January 14, 2006. The phrase was invented in angst for the " Pledge of Allegiance". The reason for their displeasure toward the Pledge of Allegiance is that it was created by a socialist, in the means to render all that recited it as subservient peons. There is no hard copy of the pledge that you can read or recite because it is more commonly a dynamic pledge that is variant from person to person. ...more on Wikipedia about "Freedom pledge"
FYP is an acronym that can mean : ...more on Wikipedia about "FYP"
Google juice is jargon for the ability or power of a website to turn up in Google searches. A website that commonly turns up as the first or second entry in a variety of searches — especially for keywords that are not part of the site's name — can be said to have a lot of Google juice. It is frequently used by bloggers and webmasters. Google's PageRank system plays a large role in ranking "hits" for a given search. It works by counting how many times a site has been linked to and by the "quality" of those links — namely how many times the site that is linking has been linked to. In this way, sites with high Google rankings (i.e., lots of "Google juice") can offer to "share" or "give" Google juice to a less popular site. A link from a site with less Google juice can also be helpful in this regard to a lesser degree: there is less juice to give. ...more on Wikipedia about "Google juice"
Googlebait is jargon for words or phrases that will affect Google searches. These usually involve celebrities and sexual situations that have very little or nothing to do with the article's main point. It is frequently used by bloggers and webmasters to raise their Google PageRank. It is similar to a Google bomb, in that it seeks to influence PageRank, but it is done on the individual page, rather than linking to it several times. Work best with pages with a lot of Google juice. Although it has existed since at least November of 2003 , it is more passive than Googlebombing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Googlebait"
A hackathon is an event when programmers meet to do extreme computer programming, these events typically are a week or weekend in length. The term sprint is used to describe shorter events of a similar nature, which typically only last a single day. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hackathon"
HAI2U is the name of a popular shock site, hai2u.com, which depicts a female vomiting while performing fellatio on a man sitting in a lawn chair, taken from a photo shoot by pornography director Max Hardcore. ...more on Wikipedia about "HAI2U"
IANAL is a Usenet and chat abbreviation ( acronym) for "I am not a lawyer." A similar abbreviation, TINLA, stands for "This is not legal advice." ...more on Wikipedia about "IANAL"
ID-Ten-T Error is a term often used by tech support operators and computer experts to describe a problem that is due to the user's ignorance instead of a software or hardware malfunction. It is a masked jab at the user: when ID-Ten-T is spelled out it becomes ID10T, l33tspeak for " idiot". ...more on Wikipedia about "ID-Ten-T Error"
Inkernet is a child-like slang term for internet. The term was popularized by The Dawn and Drew Show, in which Dawn typically signs off by saying "good night, inkernet." ...more on Wikipedia about "Inkernet"
Internet slang is slang which Internet users have coined and promulgated. Such terms typically originated with the purpose of saving keystrokes: many use the same abbreviations in text messages. The terms often appear in lower case, with capitals often reserved for emphasis: The pronoun "I", for example, often appears simply as "i". ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet slang"
"Internets" was originally used as shorthand for cluelessness about the Internet or about technology in general. It gained widespread currency when U.S. President George W. Bush referred to "the Internets" in the 2nd Presidential Debate with U.S. Senator John Kerry on October 8, 2004. The exact exchange, taken from a transcript at Wikisource, is reproduced below: ...more on Wikipedia about "Internets (colloquialism)"
Interweb (sometimes deliberately misspelled intarweb and pronounced with strong secondary stress on the second syllable) is a slang term referring to the Internet, sometimes more specifically referring to the World Wide Web. The spelling Interweb is usually used with sarcasm or derision, chiding the "uneducated masses" who now frequent the Internet, threatening the once elite hacker culture that was prevalent in the early 1990s. ...more on Wikipedia about "Interweb"
"Kewl" is internet slang for the word " Cool". ...more on Wikipedia about "Kewl"
A keyboard commando is a bulletin board system user who posts authoritatively on military or combat topics, but who has no personal experience in these regards. ...more on Wikipedia about "Keyboard commando"
Leet, usually written as "l33t" or "1337" in Leetspeak, is an online culture and/or attitude, as well as a language code (although the language code was originally refered to as "kr4g" or "krag"), among the Internet population. The word itself is derived phonetically from the word " elite", and is a cipher, or cryptic form of spelling replacing letters with numbers, symbols, and other letters that look or sound alike. Leetspeak was first used on Bulletin Board Systems, and then later adopted by users of Online Multiplayer Games and other Internet communities. ...more on Wikipedia about "Leet" The view on www.shortopedia.com.
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
It uses material from the Wikipedia . Direct links to the original articles are in the text.
If you use exact copy or modified of this article you should preserve above paragraph and put also : It uses material from
the Shortopedia article about "Internet slang".
| MAIN PAGE | MAIN INDEX | CONTACT US |