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INTERCAL /in't*r-kal/ n. [said by the authors to stand for `Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym'] A computer language designed by Don Woods and James Lyons in 1972.
INTERCAL i...
interesting adj. In hacker parlance, this word has strong connotations of `annoying', or `difficult', or both.
Hackers relish a challenge, and enjoy wringing all the irony possible out of...
Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goa...
Internet address n. 1. [techspeak] An absolute network address of the form foo@bar.
Internet Exploder [very common] Pejorative hackerism for Microsoft's "Internet Explorer" web browser (also "Internet Exploiter").
Compare HP-SUX, AIDX, buglix Macintrash, Telerat, ScumOS, Sl...
Internet Exploiter n. Another common name-of-insult for Internet Explorer, Microsoft's overweight Web Browse
more hostile than Internet Exploder. Reflects widespread hostility to Micro...
interrupt 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine.
See also trap. 2. i...
interrupt list n.
interrupts locked out adj. When someone is ignoring you.

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