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2006
09.23

Geek Phonetic Alphabet

Category: Humor / Tags: no tag / Add Comment

A

APPLE

M

MICROSOFT

Y

YAHOO

B

BOOTDISK

N

NEWBIE

Z

ZAXXON

C

CAFFEINE

O

OBSOLETE

1

ONE

D

DONGLE

P

PRINTER

2

TWO

E

ERROR

Q

QUICKTIME

3

THREE (TREE)

F

FREEWARE

R

REBOOT

4

FOUR

G

GOOGLE

S

SERIAL

5

FIVE (FIFE)

H

H4x0R

T

TOOLBAR

6

SIX

I

Intel

U

UNIX

7

SEVEN

J

JOYSTICK

V

VIRUS

8

EIGHT

K

KILOBYTE

W

WEBCAM

9

NINE (NINER)

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.

  1. internet said: 2006.10.06 19:51

    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!

  2. Neutron Jack said: 2006.10.09 20:23

    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.

  3. Neutron Jack said: 2006.10.10 12:59

    After some reflection, i-Pod should be used for the letter ‘I’. The numbers ‘0’ and ‘1’ could be replaced with “False” and “True”.

  4. Barrett said: 2007.02.13 20:39

    After even more reflection, the letter ‘i’ should be left out completely for fear of litigation from Apple.

  5. Sonic Eccles said: 2007.03.22 14:30

    “X” could be updated to Xbox.