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Thanks Ron! That's awesome!

Let's go with this freak show. It's outrageous.

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chodder said this in post #15 :
WYSIWYG

That is a very common (and very old) term in Computer Science, even though I do not expect the current generation of non-CS chat-savvy yuppies to know it.

M.

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post #18 quote:

TRIAMWAM

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01-27-2005 07:24 PM

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Sorry choda, 'There Really Is A Matrix Within A Matrix' is not a chat acronym.

Good try though.

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01-27-2005 07:29 PM

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owned turned into pwned when a warcraft multiplayer map accidently output 'pwned' on victory instead of owned.

noob
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it's all there.

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adityamahesh said this in post #17 :
That is a very common (and very old) term in Computer Science, even though I do not expect the current generation of non-CS chat-savvy yuppies to know it.

I remember when I first heard it.. doesn't seem THAT long ago. You tryin to make me feel old or sumpthin?

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I remember when I first heard it.. doesn't seem THAT long ago. You tryin to make me feel old or sumpthin?

-Sk

Well, my Professors heard it from their Professors, so yeah, I suppose it is old.

And yeah, you are old too.

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01-28-2005 06:30 AM

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chodder said this in post #15 :
WYSIWYG

"what you see is what you get"

i first heard that when i first started learning how to create am internet site ... i prefer to use the script, because programs that use WYSIWYG add a load of un needed code.

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And does woot = what?

According to the Microsoft Parent's Primer to Internet Slang:

"w00t" or the smiley character \o/: A common interjection, analogous to "woohoo!"

02-22-2005 05:19 AM

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\0/

Why does that look funny to me?

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02-22-2005 05:59 AM

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Coz you're a dirty little boy.

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