The only constant in the cyber world is change itself. As innovations in technology come and go, the way people communicate too follows the same trail.Well our organizations and the Web fraternity at large too have their own fancy terms. Keeping up-to-date with what your boss or the higher-ups throw at you becomes very important.
We bring a collection of the latest lingo's floating in the web world- if you are a developer, a programmer, a graphic designer or simply a manager of a tech firm, just get set to be Jargonaut-ed.
1. Mad Girlfriend Bug
2. Eating Your Own Dog Food
Microserfs (Young slaving programmers) often throw this lingo when work's slow and some criticism is the need of the hour. This basically refers to an internally developed software that ends up being used by the developing company itself for its own projects.
3. Barack Obama
3. Barack Obama
Oh don't just fly off your seats just yet. Yes there actually exists a lingo based on Mr.President's name. Funny as it is, an approved project management account to which the most willing and enthusiastic workers get assigned are known as Barack Obama's.
4. ID10T
For starts, its not idiot. You spell it as I-D-ten-T. Its a funky term among tech support guys to communicate secretly among themselves about problematic people they have to face up in their line of work. That's some smart disguise!
5. Payment Bomb
Well we mostly talk about the vulnerability of the customers, but the sellers too face a lot of unfair behavior. This phrase indicates a block added to the apps that facilitates a owner to deny the functionality of an app in case a client defers on bill payment.
6. Higgs Bugson
The Higgs Boson is the most everlasting mysteries of the world till date. Taking a lead from it, the cyber dudes have cut out their own funky term for a situation that is fairly similar. A term used by developers mostly, it is a hypothetical bug that supposedly exists "based on a number of related event log entries and vague anecdotal reports from users". However, it is difficult to go beyond this and reproduce it actually, precisely due to the ambiguity surrounding it.
7. Turklebaum
7. Turklebaum
Named after a real person, Turklebaum who died on his work desk, this phrase is used for all kinds of bogus content , virus and spam alert, stock hoaxes that come as attachments in a mail and newsgroups.
8. Dancing Baloney
8. Dancing Baloney
It's not a person, it's not a dance genre! It's much more simple and funny. Over animated GIFs and special effects for impressing clients that do the pirouette on your computer screens are baloney's. In addition, cyber dudes even use cornea gumbo likewise for visually noisy websites.
9. Bloombug
9. Bloombug
Derived from Bloomberg's extremely successful stint in the commercial arena over the years, this fancy term is used for a bug that unintentionally generates money for an enterprise.
10. Digital Doppelganger
Surely most of us know what a doppelganger is. On similar patterns, when a web user typically uses a fictitious username to run various accounts they become their own doppelgangers. This may be done to avoid the breakdown of user accounts in case of a hack or virus attack or simply for the sake of anonymity.
11. Gingerbread House
11. Gingerbread House
Also known as youth grinder, companies that hire fresh graduates for high-end post on a less than worthy pay scale. Its a slang attached to small businesses who are under performing, engineering and commercial art firms mostly. Such gingerbread houses hand out compensatory gifts and freebies as perks.
12. Walled Garden
12. Walled Garden
Most of us might have come across this term on and off in software firms. A veteran of cyber slangs, it refers to websites that allow access to users to only specific content or that of their sponser partners which may or may not be relevant and competent. On the other hand, valid ISPs ensure act as an open source giving access to all websites and their content.
13. Seagull Manager
13. Seagull Manager
This is our pick of the list. Employees are often at the receiving end of a person who blandly rants, flies around the office, mostly spelling dangerous words like targets and memos but in the end just phishes out into silence. You got that right. Its our Managers who gawk and hover around bossing over innocent employees. Our sympathies.
So the next time someone tags you with these, just touch some base like a tiger by all means!
Do tell us which is your favorite pick from the list. If you have other thoughts and suggestions, you can leave a comment below.
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So the next time someone tags you with these, just touch some base like a tiger by all means!
Do tell us which is your favorite pick from the list. If you have other thoughts and suggestions, you can leave a comment below.
Follow us on our Facebook Page and Twitter for more funky jargons.
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