From the Devil's dictionary.
 

Electronic jargon is everywhere.

Here are some of the more popular one's explained.


Command line, noun

The most efficient method available for accidentally deleting data.

Comment, verb

To gather people in a circle, for the purpose of patting each other on the back.

Copyright, noun

The notion that you can protect from the future what you stole from the past.

Digital Rights Management (DRM), noun

A technology that allows pants to be sold with a filching hand pre-installed in the pocket.

e-mail, noun

A method of electronic communication, primarily used to inform you that your penis is too small.

Instant message, noun

The shortest path between a middle-aged man and a conviction for statutory solicitation.

Web standards, noun

A large stick or cudgel, used by the slightly more anal-retentive to beat the slightly less anal-retentive.

XML, noun

A magic elixir of legend, claiming to solve all problems while inevitably exacting an ironic cost.

<i>e-mail, noun

A method of electronic communication, primarily used to inform you that your penis is too small.</i>

duh. my penis is so small it's invisible!

but i rec' email everyday to enlarge what i do not possess.

Yeah,but...........

“I’ve got e-mail. And it is not!”