Geek Phonetic Alphabet
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A |
APPLE |
M |
MICROSOFT |
Y |
YAHOO |
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B |
BOOTDISK |
N |
NEWBIE |
Z |
ZAXXON |
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C |
CAFFEINE |
O |
OBSOLETE |
1 |
ONE |
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D |
DONGLE |
P |
PRINTER |
2 |
TWO |
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E |
ERROR |
Q |
QUICKTIME |
3 |
THREE (TREE) |
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F |
FREEWARE |
R |
REBOOT |
4 |
FOUR |
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G |
|
S |
SERIAL |
5 |
FIVE (FIFE) |
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H |
H4x0R |
T |
TOOLBAR |
6 |
SIX |
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I |
Intel |
U |
UNIX |
7 |
SEVEN |
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J |
JOYSTICK |
V |
VIRUS |
8 |
EIGHT |
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K |
KILOBYTE |
W |
WEBCAM |
9 |
NINE (NINER) |
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L |
LINUX |
X |
XMODEM |
0 |
ZERO |
This is still in development. We changed Y from YMODEM to YAHOO on the air last night, per a brilliant suggestion from Dwight Silverman, so I guess this is technically Version 1.01 rev A
Please comment with suggestions if you can think of a bettor word for any given letter.
October 6th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
i stands for internet. you aint a geek if you think it means india. when was the last time all geeks went to india? when was the last time all geeks went to the internet? get the drift!
October 9th, 2006 at 8:23 pm
I stands for India. Real Geeks may not go to India but our JOBS did!
Thank you IBM, HP and DELL for moving software development centers to Bangalore and Mumbai.
October 10th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
After some reflection, i-Pod should be used for the letter ‘I’. The numbers ‘0’ and ‘1’ could be replaced with “False” and “True”.
February 13th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
After even more reflection, the letter ‘i’ should be left out completely for fear of litigation from Apple.
March 22nd, 2007 at 2:30 pm
“X” could be updated to Xbox.