Mais que veulent dire tous ces mots et acronymes informatiques ? Voici une version d’un dictionnaire un peu spécial (et en anglais) qui vous fera surement marrer. Je m’excuse d’avance pour les non anglophones et les non informaticiens 😉
A
AMIGA = A Merely Insignificant Gamers Addiction
Apple = Arrogance Produced Profit Losing Entity
AOL = Advertising Overloads Losers
B
BASIC = Bill’s Attempt to Seize Industry Control
BING = Believe I‘m Not Google
BIOS = Basically I‘m Origin of System
BIOS = Boots In One Second
C
COBOL = Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
CD-ROM = Consumer Device-Rendered Obsolete in Months
D
DEC = Do Expect Cuts
DOS = Defective Operating System
E
eBook = Enemy of Book
eBay = Electronic Bid Against Yourself
G
Gigo = Garbage In, Garbage Out
Google = God’s Only Online Gateway Linking Electronically
H
HCL = Hilarious Computer Logic
HTTP = Hackers Text Transfer Protocol
I
IBM = I Blame Microsoft
IBM = I Buy Macs
iPad = I Protest Adobe
iPhone = I Prefer Hipness Over Network Excellence
iPod = Idiots Price Our Devices
IE = Internet Exploder
ISDN = It Still Does Nothing
L
LISP = Lots of Infuriating and Silly Parenthesis
M
MAC = Most Absurd Computer
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
MSN = My Silly Network
N
NEXT = Now EXchange for Trash
NAPSTER = No longer A Possible Solution To Escape Record-buying
NTFS = Not a Trusted File System
O
OS/2 = Obsolete Soon 2
OS = Operation Suspende
P
PICNIC = Problem In Chair Not In Computer
PDF = Pigs Do Fly
PHP = Pretty Horrid Privacy
Pentium = Produced Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathematics
PCMCIA = People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
R
RAM = Raggedy A** Machine
S
SSL = Security Silently Leaked
SSL = Sessions Seriously Lagging
SPAM = Successfully Pestering Advertising Material
SCSI = System Can’t See It
T
TWAIN = Technology Without Any Important Name
Twitter = Thoughts Which I Think They Enjoy Reading
V
Vista = Very Inconsistent Software – Try Another
W
WGA = Windows Genuinely Angry
WARP = What A Rot Program
Windows = Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
Windows = Wished I‘d Never Deployed On Work Station
Windows ME = Windows Mistake Edition
Windows XP = Windows eXPired
WWW = World Wide Wait
Y
Yahoo = You Always Have Other Options