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Internet slang (also called Internet shorthand, cyber-slang, netspeak, digispeak or chatspeak) is a non-standard or unofficial form of language used by people on the Internet to communicate to one another. [1] A popular example of Internet slang is "lol" meaning "laugh out loud".
Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.
PCMCIA—Personal Computer Memory Card International Association; PCM—Pulse-Code Modulation; PCRE—Perl Compatible Regular Expressions; PD—Public Domain; PDA—Personal Digital Assistant; PDF—Portable Document Format; PDH—Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy; PDP—Programmed Data Processor; PE—Physical Extents; PE—Portable Executable
One notable example of this is the ITA2 coding used during World War II (1939–1945). The nature of these standards is not as common knowledge like it is for ASCII or EBCDIC or their slang names. While 8-bit is the de facto standard as of 2016, [ citation needed ] in the past 5-bit and 6-bit were more prevalent or their multiple.
In contrast, a character entity reference refers to a character by the name of an entity which has the desired character as its replacement text. The entity must either be predefined (built into the markup language) or explicitly declared in a Document Type Definition (DTD). The format is the same as for any entity reference: &name;
Leet, like hacker slang, employs analogy in construction of new words. For example, if haxored is the past tense of the verb "to hack" (hack → haxor → haxored), then winzored would be easily understood to be the past tense conjugation of "to win," even if the reader had not seen that particular word before.
However, an equals sign, a number 8, a capital letter B or a capital letter X are also used to indicate normal eyes, widened eyes, those with glasses or those with crinkled eyes, respectively. Symbols for the mouth vary, e.g. ")" for a smiley face or "(" for a sad face. One can also add a "}" after the mouth character to indicate a beard.
Computer data storage: NAT: Network Address Translation Internet Layer Cisco Internet Protocol Journal: A look Inside Network Address Translators: NBMA: Non-Broadcast Multiple Access (e.g. Frame Relay ATM) Telecom See ATM, Frame Relay and X.25, for examples. NIC: Network Interface Card Physical layer Telecom Glossary: NRZ: Non-return-to-zero ...