The Devil’s IT Dictionary Definitions
(I take no responsibility whatsoever for anyone taking any of these definitions seriously).
Word Processor
A gargantuan text editor with thousands of features, ten of which are useful and five of which are used.
Future-Proof
A computer product is future-proof if it is so well designed that it allows for any possible technology [...]

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Invention
The act of filling in time sheets and expense claims.
Journalism
The translation of press releases into news stories by the process of lifting the first two paragraphs and correcting the punctuation.

PDF
This stands for Pretty Damn Funny, and is an acronym contributed to the IT industry by Adobe Software. Some technical guy at [...]

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The Devil’s IT Dictionary Definitions
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Documentation
An incomprehensible collection of writings, bereft of any literary merit, that are intended to frustrate optimistic users in search of useful application features. The same collection of aphorisms can usually be found somewhere in an application’s help subsystem.
Open [...]

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The Devil’s IT Dictionary Definitions
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Cursor
What the pointer was called before it was eaten by a mouse.
(To) Google
To spend endless hours navigating through trivia in a fruitless search for knowledge.
Pokémon
Nintendo has been unable to suppress the fact that Pokémon is actually [...]

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The Devil’s IT Dictionary Definitions
(I take no responsibility whatsoever for anyone taking any of these definitions seriously).
Critical Success Factor
This is meaningless management-speak. In recent years it has been necessary for the IT industry to adopt such management-speak in order to sell technology, so it now uses management-speak extensively. IT Analysts use management-speak extensively too. [...]

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