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Born in 1990 27
- ●AFAIK'As far as I know' — the hedge that has opened uncertain claims since Usenet, and survive…
- ●Armchair ExpertA person with confident opinions about a field they have never worked in — the armchair e…
- ●BTW'By the way' — the aside, in three letters, from Usenet to the present, and one of the fi…
- ●Cheese (Gaming)A cheap, exploitative tactic that works — cheesing a boss, a cheese strategy — as the gam…
- ▲CyberspaceSomewhere else that you went when you logged on. Died when there stopped being a here to …
- ●Eh (Canadian)'Eh' — the Canadian tag that asks for agreement, that Canadians use less than the world t…
- ●FWIW'For what it's worth' — the hedge that pre-discounts an opinion, from Usenet to the prese…
- ●Finna'About to' — 'finna', from 'fixing to' — as the AAVE future tense that the internet adopt…
- ●Godwin's LawAs an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a Nazi comparison approaches one…
- ●IIRC'If I recall correctly' — the forum poster's way of citing memory as a source, and one of…
- ◐IMHOIn my humble opinion, preceding an opinion that was not. The H was contested from the sta…
- ●Inner ChildThe childhood self one is encouraged to reparent, comfort and buy toys for — the inner ch…
- ●It's Not a Bug, It's a FeatureThe reclassification of a mistake as a decision — 'it's not a bug, it's a feature' — as t…
- ●LMAO'Laughing my ass off' — the laugh above LOL and below ROFL, from the 1990s to now, and th…
- ●LadA young man who drinks, jokes and does not think — the lad — as a 1990s British type that…
- ●LurkerSomeone who reads and never posts. The vast silent majority of every community, and the o…
- ●MaccasMcDonald's — as Australians have called it since at least the 1980s, and as the company i…
- ▲MinesweeperThe grid of hidden mines that came free with every copy of Windows from 3.1 in 1992 to 7,…
- ◐NewbieA newcomer, before the spelling turned hostile. Now used only by newbies.
- ●PhotoshopAdobe's image editor, first sold in February 1990, and the reason no photograph on the in…
- ●Power UserA user who uses a thing more than it was designed for — a power user — from software into…
- ↺Solitaire (Windows)Klondike solitaire, written by a Microsoft intern who was never paid for it and shipped w…
- ●SoundGood, decent, reliable — 'he's sound' — as the Northern and Irish word for the highest pr…
- ●Touch Base'Let's touch base' — to have a brief conversation — as the meeting request that never say…
- ●Wagwan'What's going on' — the Jamaican greeting, via London, as the opener of a million message…
- ▲WarezPirated software, with a z. The scene, the couriers, the NFO files, the ASCII art; a whol…
- ●YMMV'Your mileage may vary' — the disclaimer from petrol adverts, adopted by Usenet as the po…