![]() Emoji: another word for emoticon, it’s those little smiley faces, frowning faces, tables, etc. Terms from emailĮveryone these days uses email, and there are plenty of voters and taxpayers who have never known a world without email, but there are some terms that still cause non-techies to think you’re just making things up, or who have no idea why something is called what it is.Ħ. Word: 16 bits of data used to represent a discrete piece of data. Byte: eight bits strung together to represent a specific value such as a letter or a digit.ĥ. Bit: a single binary piece of data, either a 0 or a 1.Ģ. The first, smallest piece seems like it was self-evident, and the rest naturally follow.ġ. Pieces of dataĬomputer scientists had to come up with terms to define units of data. PS: this is an updated post which was originally published 2 years ago. Every culture and trade has its own secret language known only to the initiates, but in today’s post we’re going to look at 57 of the oddest/strangest/most obscure terms we use in what, to us, is everyday language. ![]() Sometimes, we don’t even realize we’re doing it until a “normal” looks at us like we’re speaking in tongues, which, in fact, we are. We have what must appear to the uninitiated as mystical powers, typing at the command line looks like programming, many of the icons in modern operating systems resemble ancient runes or glyphs, and we oft-times speak in our own secret language. Most people who do not work in IT do not “get” IT. ![]()
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