What is your favorite 'puter' slang word/words and its meaning? Do you remember where you learned it?

Question

Hi, I'm doing a college paper on the sociological effects computer useage has had on language. In short, computer slang. I'm hoping to turn them into some sort of game as part of a presentation. Thanks much!

Answer 1

When a circuit goes dead (in network infrastructure), and it is clear that you cannot restore it without some hardware rebuilding, we used to say we were "t*ts up", meaning we were in trouble and about to be screwed.

Also, diagonal cutting pliers are known as "dikes". But nowadays, you really cannot ask a group of techs for a pair of dikes, because the female half of the group will be offended, and the rest will make jokes about which 2 to pick.

Ah well, this is really network and phone tech slang, not PC slang.

I remember the help desk Frisbee; any AOL CD. and the help desk reference to the cupholder, being the CDR Drive drawer. These 2 were pretty common at a network helpdesk facility in Seattle in 1992 and 1993.

Answer 2

Puter Meaning

Answer 3

Shark N*gga- Biter of ones kind Crab N*gga- A scavenger Trout- P*ssy Scrape- F*ck Jakes- Police God Degrees- Food Gates- Drug spots Milk The Cow- Bestowing expertise to the adolescence Walk the puppy- Handle your enterprise 86- Forget approximately a plan Crill- Crack

Answer 4

An executable still running in the background but not doing anything:
'zombie process'

Shutdown and restart the server:
'bounce the server'

A program that doesn't free up memory creates a:
'memory leak'

Answer 5

Blue Screen of Death THe wonderful error message that you get moments before your computer crashes.

Answer 6

Email "addy"

Answer 7

WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)