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washing machine n. 1. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets.
washing software n.
water MIPS n. (see MIPS, sense 2) Large, water-cooled machines of either today's ECL-supercomputer flavor or yesterday's traditional mainframe type.
wave a dead chicken v.
weasel n. [Cambridge] A naive user, one who deliberately or accidentally does things that are stupid or ill-advised.
Roughly synonymous with loser....
web pointer n. A World Wide Web URL. See also hotlink, which has slightly different connotations.
web toaster n.
webify n. To put a piece of (possibly already existing) material on the WWW.
Frequently used for papers ("Why don't you webify all your publications?...
webmaster n. [WWW
web ring n. Two or more web sites connected by prominent links between sites sharing a common interest or theme.
Usually such cliques have the topology of a ring, in order to make it ea...

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