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Java — a programming language. Originally called "D", but with the connotation of a near-failing mark on a report card the language was renamed Oak by Java-creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window JavaScript — a programming language. It was originally developed by Brendan Eich of Netscape under the name "Mocha", which was later renamed to "LiveScript", and finally to "JavaScript" ICQ — an instant messaging service. ICQ is not an initialis ID10T - pronounced "ID ten T" - is a code frequently used by a customer service representative (CSR) to annotate their notes and identify the source of a problem as the person who is reporting the problem rather than the system being blamed Hotmail — free email service, now named Outlook.com. Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a computer anywhere in the world GNU — a project with an original goal of creating a free operating system. Gentoo — a Linux distribution. Named after a variety of penguin, the universal Linux mascot finger — Unix command that provides information about users logged into a system. foobar — from the U.S. Army slang acronym, FUBAR. Both foo and bar are commonly used as metasyntactic variables. Ethernet — a computer networking technology D — a programming language. Designed by Walter Bright as an improved C, avoiding many of the design problems of C daemon — a process in an operating system that runs in the background Debian — a Linux distribution. A portmanteau of the names Ian Murdock, the Debian Project creator, and Debra Lynn, Ian's then girlfriend and future wife. default — an initial value for a variable or user setting. C — a programming language. C++ — an object-oriented programming language, a successor to the C programming language. computer — from the human computers who carried out calculations mentally and possibly with mechanical aids, now replaced by electronic programmable computers. cookie — a packet of information that travels between a browser and the web server. B — probably a contraction of "BCPL", reflecting Ken Thompson's efforts to implement a smaller BCPL in 8 KB of memory on a DEC PDP-7 biff — named after a dog known by the developers at Berkeley, who – according to the UNIX manual page – died on 15 August 1993, at the age of 15, and belonged to a certain Heidi Stettner bit — first used by Claude E. Shannon in his seminal 1948 paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication Bon — created by Ken Thompson and named either after his wife Bonnie, or else after "a religion whose rituals involve the murmuring of magic formulas booting or bootstrapping — from the phrase "to pull oneself up by one's bootstraps", originally used as a metaphor for any self-initiating or self-sustaining process bug — often (but erroneously) credited to Grace Hopper. In 1946, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she traced an error in the Harvard Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book byte — coined by Werner Buchholz in June 1956 during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer Macintosh, Mac — a personal computer from Apple Computer. From McIntosh, a popular type of apple Nerd — A colloquial term for a computer person, especially an obsessive, singularly focused one. Originally created by Dr. Seuss from his book If I Ran a Zoo. Oracle — a relational database management system (RDBMS). Larry Ellison, Ed Oates and Bob Miner were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). PCMCIA — the standards body for PC card and ExpressCard, expansion card form factors. PEBKAC - an acronym for "Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair", which is a code frequently used by a customer service representative (CSR) Pentium — a series of microprocessors from Intel. Perl — an interpreted scripting language. Perl was originally named Pearl, after the "pearl of great price" Download 20.16 Kb. Share with your friends:
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