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Mamil [1] (or MAMIL [2]) is an acronym and a pejorative term for a "middle-aged man in Lycra" [3] [4] – that is, men who ride an expensive racing bicycle [1] for leisure, while wearing body-hugging jerseys and bicycle shorts. [2] The word was reportedly coined by British marketing research firm Mintel in 2010. [5]
The Army Music Command (French: Commandement des Musiques de l’Armée de Terre, COMMAT)) is an organization under the direct authority of the Chief of Staff of the French Army. It is composed of a staff stationed in Versailles and 6 army bands throughout France in the following cities: Lille, Lyon, Metz, Toulouse, Rennes and Versailles.
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF; / ɡ ɪ f / GHIF or / dʒ ɪ f / JIF, see § Pronunciation) is a bitmap image format that was developed by a team at the online services provider CompuServe led by American computer scientist Steve Wilhite and released on June 15, 1987.
ASCII art of a fish. ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant character sets with proprietary extended characters (beyond the 128 characters of standard 7-bit ASCII).
The earliest forms of Internet slang assumed people's knowledge of programming and commands in a specific language. [4] Internet slang is used in chat rooms, social networking services, online games, video games and in the online community. Since 1979, users of communications networks like Usenet created their own shorthand. [5]
Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons – as of September 2013, has over 18 million media files (photographs, diagrams, animations, music, spoken text, video clips, etc.) available for use in any Wikimedia (community) project, as well as for free downloading by anyone. Anything other than non-free content should be uploaded to the Commons, not to the ...
Animated gif with turtle in MSWLogo [7] Logo's most-known feature is the turtle (derived originally from a robot of the same name), [5] an on-screen "cursor" that shows output from commands for movement and small retractable pen, together producing line graphics. It has traditionally been displayed either as a triangle or a turtle icon (though ...
The best known video is a live stream of lo-fi music that has run for several years. The music is either released through the ChilledCow label, or used with permission from the artist. [3] [4] The fact that the music is always live prevents YouTube from putting ads that could cut the stream. [5] The playlist is updated fairly frequently. [6]