The Devil’s IT Dictionary Definitions

(I take no responsibility whatsoever for anyone taking any of these definitions seriously).

Wormhole Router

A router that bends the space-time continuum and sends your information packets through a parallel universe before delivering them. (Yes, there is such a thing as a wormhole router. Google it.)

Interface

This is a place within a computer system where something links to something else. If programmers have anything to do with making the linkage happen then the interface is referred to as an API (Application Programmer’s Interface) and deliberately made horribly cryptic so that using it can be regarded as a skill.

RAID

RAID is the most misleading acronym yet created in computing. It stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. So what does that mean? Well it means that there’s a whole array of really cheap disks and they’re redundant, surplus to requirements, not needed, useless. Not only that, but RAID arrays are graded according to uselessness, from RAID 0, (quite useless) to RAID 5 (really phenomenally useless).

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