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Answer» ACORN: Astounding Computers Often Ridiculed Nonetheless AMIGA: A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity BASIC: Bill's ATTEMPT to Seize INDUSTRY Control BIOS: But It's Only Software CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language DEC: Do Expect Cuts DOS: Defunct Operating System IBM: I Blame Microsoft ISDN: It Still Does Nothing LISP: LOTS of Infuriating & SILLY Parentheses MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms PENTIUM: Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics PEBCAK: Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard SCSI: System Can't See It WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System WWW: World Wide Wait 486: The average IQ needed to understand a P.C Computer Chip: Any starchy food stuff consumed in MASS quantities while programming Keyboard: The standard way to generate computer errors Mouse: An advanced input device to make computer errors easier to generate Floppy: The state of your wallet after purchasing a computer Hard Drive: The sales technique employed by most computer salesmen Portable Computer: Device invented to force business men to work at home, on vacation and business trips Disk Crash: A typical computer response to any critical deadline Power User: Anyone who can format a disk from DOS System Update: A quick method of trashing ALL of your current softwareHe he where did you find that list... 1995?its missing my personal favorite PEBCAK - Problem Exists Between Chair And KeyboardQuote from: Deerpark on February 09, 2008, 03:08:18 AM He he where did you find that list... 1995? http://forums.activeworlds.com/archive/index.php?t-4195.html Quote from: homer on February 09, 2008, 03:25:55 AM its missing my personal favorite PEBCAK - Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard Hahaha!! Very funny. Will add that one.Yep, PEBCAK is official: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PEBCAK.html. Kind of off topic, but, I was looking up Acorn, and found this: http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline.html (More than one page there) A history of different operating systems Edit: Is it just me, or does this really look like Windows 95: http://toastytech.com/guis/bignewdeal.gif I am surprised Microsoft didnt sue themQuote from: Zylstra on February 10, 2008, 03:54:28 PM Edit: Is it just me, or does this really look like Windows 95: http://toastytech.com/guis/bignewdeal.gif I am surprised Microsoft didnt sue them I've visited that site many times. He blows fun at Windows by taking screenshots of Windows 95 (and 98) and edits them. -EDIT- Actually, I was wrong!! Go Here. It's not Windows 95.

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ACORN: Astounding Computers Often Ridiculed Nonetheless

AMIGA: A Merely Insignificant Game Addiction

APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity

BASIC: Bill's ATTEMPT to Seize INDUSTRY Control

BIOS: But It's Only Software

CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months

COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language

DEC: Do Expect Cuts

DOS: Defunct Operating System

IBM: I Blame Microsoft

ISDN: It Still Does Nothing

LISP: LOTS of Infuriating & SILLY Parentheses

MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs

MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools
Teenagers

MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed

OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too

PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

PENTIUM: Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of
Mathematics

PEBCAK: Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard

SCSI: System Can't See It

WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System

WWW: World Wide Wait

486: The average IQ needed to understand a P.C

Computer Chip: Any starchy food stuff consumed in MASS quantities while
programming

Keyboard: The standard way to generate computer errors

Mouse: An advanced input device to make computer errors easier to generate

Floppy: The state of your wallet after purchasing a computer

Hard Drive: The sales technique employed by most computer salesmen

Portable Computer: Device invented to force business men to work at home, on
vacation and business trips

Disk Crash: A typical computer response to any critical deadline

Power User: Anyone who can format a disk from DOS

System Update: A quick method of trashing ALL of your current softwareHe he where did you find that list... 1995?its missing my personal favorite

PEBCAK - Problem Exists Between Chair And KeyboardQuote from: Deerpark on February 09, 2008, 03:08:18 AM

He he where did you find that list... 1995?

http://forums.activeworlds.com/archive/index.php?t-4195.html

Quote from: homer on February 09, 2008, 03:25:55 AM

its missing my personal favorite

PEBCAK - Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard

Hahaha!! Very funny. Will add that one.Yep, PEBCAK is official: http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PEBCAK.html. Kind of off topic, but, I was looking up Acorn, and found this:
http://toastytech.com/guis/guitimeline.html
(More than one page there)
A history of different operating systems

Edit:
Is it just me, or does this really look like Windows 95:
http://toastytech.com/guis/bignewdeal.gif
I am surprised Microsoft didnt sue themQuote from: Zylstra on February 10, 2008, 03:54:28 PM

Edit:
Is it just me, or does this really look like Windows 95:
http://toastytech.com/guis/bignewdeal.gif
I am surprised Microsoft didnt sue them

I've visited that site many times. He blows fun at Windows by taking screenshots of Windows 95 (and 98) and edits them.

-EDIT-

Actually, I was wrong!! Go Here. It's not Windows 95.

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