| ACK! | An exclamation, as in "Ack, I dropped my toothbrush!" or "ACK! My cat's on fire!" |
| ACME | The supplier of all bizarre, unique, and usually dysfunctional items. |
| AFAICT | As Far As Can Tell |
| AFAICTM | As Far As I Can Throw Manhattan (this being a measure of trust) |
| AFAIK | As Far As I Know |
| AFK | Away From Keyboard |
| Alpha Geek | The most knowledgeable, technically oriented person in the area. "Ask Confi, he's our resident Alpha Geek." (see also: house wizard) |
| AOL | Almost on Line |
| BAD | Broken As Designed (I think that says enough about something) |
| Barf | to complain about "What are you barfing about?" or to throw up |
| BBIAB | Be Back In A Bit |
| BBL | Be Back Later |
| BBS | Be Back Soon |
| Beige Toaster | how one usually refers to a Mac Classic (the one-piece) ™-G |
| BF | boyfriend brain fart (see below) |
| Big Red Button | The one that turns off everything. Usually labeled "Do NOT Press Big Red Button!!!" Sometimes seen as the BRS - Big Red Switch |
| Biznatch | An insult. Drop the -zna- ™-Evek |
| Black hole | Where all lost e-mail disappeared to |
| Blowing one's buffer | To lose one's train of thought. When the person you are speaking too says something so astonishing that you loose your train of thought: "Whoa, you just blew my buffer!" |
| BOAJ | Butt Of All Jokes - if you don't know who this is, it's probably you. |
| Brain fart | a stupid error, when one knew better, e.g. typing in 'dir' in Unix, after playing with DOS |
| BRB | Be Right Back |
| BTW | By The Way |
| Bzzzzt, wrong! | If you don't know, watch Family Feud, sometimes seen in its longer form "Bzzzt, wrong. Thanks for playing!" |
| Dead cow | What hamburgers are made from |
| Dead Tree Edition | a hard-copy, the paper edition of an electronic text, i.e. a book |
| .dic | Short name for this file (not to be confused with a .dick, which is pretty obvious) |
| DOA | Dead On Arrival (often used to describe bad software) |
| D'oh! | Thank you, Homer Simpson |
| DMS | Drunken Mouse Syndrome, when your pointer jumps around erratically, and doesn't go where the mouse goes. Can be fixed by cleaning your mouse ball.(Yes, mice only have one ball.) |
| Evil | Something too complicated to deal with,... with the implication that the programmer was just stupid, as opposed to being "rude" (see below), though, the two may be used together to describe something completely bad, as "evil and rude" |
| FAQ | Frequently Asked Questions |
| FDL | Falls Down Laughing |
| FUBAR | Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition (sometimes 'Repair,' but in all truthfulness, if something gets to the point of being FUBAR, the two words are pretty much interchangeable) |
| FYI | For Your Information |
| GF | Girl-Friend |
| Gray Bar Land | Completely zoned out, from watching the little gray bar (now blue in recent versions of IE) at the bottom of the web browser window slowly move as a page loads. |
| House Wizard | A very technically skilled individual (see also: Alpha Geek) |
| Huggle | Something of a cross between "hug" and "cuddle," whoever thought of this should be shot |
| IAW | In Another Window |
| IBM | I Blame Microsoft
Inferior, But Marketable I'd Buy (a) Mac |
| IMHO | In My Humble Opinion |
| IMNSHO | In My Not So Humble Opinion |
| IMO | In My Opinion (you get the idea) |
| IRL | In Real Life (as opposed to on the internet) |
| JK (or j/k) | Just kidding |
| Kewl | Cool, written phonetically (sort of) |
| Keyboard Plaque | The grime that build up on a keyboard, making keys sticky and sometimes causing them to change color. Usually made up from a combination of coffee, soda, Doritos, and other snack foods |
| Laff | Laugh |
| LOL | Laughs Out Loud |
| Macintosh | Most Applications Crash, If Not Then Operating System Hangs |
| MIA | Missing In Action. Someone who never answers e-mail anymore, or has gone 404 (see below), though there is the implication that the individual was once normal (or close to) at some point in the past. |
| No Brainer | simple task, that even a person without a brain could do |
| PEBKAC | An error type, stands for "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair" |
| PITA | Pain In The Ass |
| Pop a squat | Have a seat ™-Jynx |
| PPL | People |
| PPLZ | The plural of ppl (why? Who knows? …or cares?) |
| Random | Something out of the ordinary, unexpected, for example: "Whoa, that flying pink elephant was random." |
| Re (re-hi) | Hello again |
| ROTFL(MAO)(ASTC) | Rolls On The Floor Laughing (My Ass Off) (And Scaring The Cat) |
| RTFM | Read The Fucking Manual!!! |
| Rude | Something too complicated to understand, with the implication of malice in the item's origin (see: evil) |
| Smile and nod | What you do when you don't understand, care, or have any real desire to do either ™-G |
| SNAFU | Situation Normal, All Fucked Up |
| Snail mail | Physical mail, through the U.S. Postal Service (called 'Snail' due to its speed, compared to e-mail) |
| Snarf | To accidentally spew water (or other liquid, or even food if it's bad enough) usually through the nose due to a fit of laughter. "Your e-mail was so funny, I snarfed my soda." |
| Three Finger Salute | Control-Alt-Delete (aka: Vulcan Nerve Pinch) |
| Thwap | To hit, or a hit, usually includes the usage of a random (see: random) device. "Ack, I've been thwapped with a bag of potatoes!" |
| TTFN | Ta-Ta For Now |
| TTY(time) | Talk To You (insert letter here: 'L' for later, 'S' for soon, you get the idea) |
| Vulcan Nerve Pinch | Control-Alt-Delete (aka: three finger salute) |
| WTF? | What The Fuck?!?! An exclamation of surprise and confusion |
| WWIT? | What Wierdness is This? ™-Jynx |
| WYSIALG | What You See Is ALL You Get - similar to WYSIWYG, but infers that the item at hand is a little under par... |
| WYSIWYG | What You See Is What You Get |
| 308 | Cannot connect to site, Site may be down. For that particular individual who you just cannot get through to. "Don't bother trying to get through to him, he's 308." Sometimes because the person is 404 (see below) |
| 403 | Access denied, when you don't get something you want, or think you should have. "Damn it, I got 403'd" i.e. nothing. Also used by some individuals as "No Comment." |
| 404 | A person who is clueless, or lost. Comes from the web response "404, file not found" |
If you didn't find it here, check the Wikipedia, it has everything.