Today I was reading an article from the August 27th issue of eWEEK concerning the company Leap Frog and how they have embraced open source. But while reading the article I wondered how many people would even understand some of the acronyms and technical jargon that the article contained? So I had my wife who is basically an above average computer user read just one paragraph of the article and she gave me that blank look like who cares?
Does one really need to be a nerd to even read the magazine? Must be because terms like ‘synergies’, ‘XML’, “RHEL’, ‘Mule’, ‘Wicket’ and so forth I actually knew. But where does the average computer user who may have a hankering to learn this stuff go? So I did a Google to locate some sites to help with the computer jargon.
Netlingo
Seems that site is not only a dictionary of computer lingo, but also provides information on smileys & emoticons as well as Internet acronyms. Netlingo can be located here.
WhatIs
Not only to they have a dictionary but also cheat sheets you can use. Nice touch. Whatis can be found here.
PC Hell
PC Hell has their own dictionary of terms they label as” Sacred Hall of Computer and Internet Terms and Acronyms”. Their site can be found here.
There were many more sites available, but these three should be able to help those in finding the meaning of almost all of the computer jargon.
But my question to you is what is your favorite site for unraveling the geek stuff? Let us know.
Comments welcome.
[tags]computer, terms, acronyms, geek, [/tags]