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  1. January 28th, 2004, 07:16 AM #1
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    Computer Acronyms

    NAPSTER
    No longer A Possible Solution To Escape Record-buying
    TWAIN
    Technology Without Any Important Name

    PCMCIA
    People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms

    ISDN
    It Still Does Nothing

    APPLE
    Arrogance Produces Profit Losing Entity

    SCSI
    System Can't See It

    DOS
    Defective Operating System

    BASIC
    Bill's Attempt to Seize Industry Control

    IBM
    I Blame Microsoft (or conversely "I Build Macs")

    DEC
    Do Expect Cuts

    CD-ROM
    Consumer Device-Rendered Obsolete in Months

    OS/2
    Obsolete Soon Too

    WWW
    World Wide Wait

    MACINTOSH
    Most Applications Crash, If Not, The Operating System Hangs

    PENTIUM
    Produces Erroneous Numbers Through Incorrect Understanding of Mathmatics

    COBOL
    Completely Obsolete Buisiness Oriented Language

    AMIGA
    A Merely Insignificant Gamers Addiction

    LISP
    Lots of Infuriating & Silly Parenthesis

    MIPS
    Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed

    WINDOWS
    Will Install Needless Data On Whole System

    MICROSOFT
    Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
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  2. January 28th, 2004, 12:34 PM #2
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    gud 1 man
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  3. January 30th, 2004, 11:27 AM #3
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    I thought TWAIN was
    Technology Without An Interresting Name

    http://www.twain.org/faq.htm#What%20...0acronym%20for
    ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.
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  4. February 3rd, 2004, 06:22 AM #4
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    good one
    Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats. ~Voltaire
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  5. February 3rd, 2004, 08:54 PM #5
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  6. February 27th, 2004, 04:44 PM #6
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    java: Just another vain acronym
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  7. March 3rd, 2004, 07:19 AM #7
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    this was published in a magazine in DEC1999(Computers @ Home)
    though not all of it nice one still
    The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.


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