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You should use the preceding terms whenever you have to 'interface'¹ with computer experts. For example, if you're purchasing a new computer, you want to use as many of these terms as possible, so that store personnel will realize that they're dealing with a person who has a high level of technical expertise: STORE PERSONNEL: May I help you? YOU: I'm looking for a 'hard drive' with plenty of 'RAM' in the 'megahertz.' STORE PERSONNEL: You want the computer store next door. This is a supermarket. YOU: Let me see your 'zucchini.'

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Internet people love acronyms because they make communication much more efficient, as we can see from the following typical conversation: Person A: What's up? Person B: Not much. Person A: LOL. HEFY? Person B: ROTFL. Person C: PMFJ, but IMHO, OJIOGBUOLSWMR TJVAIFWNTMITSI HDHGCOAC.

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It can take quite a while for a Web page to appear on your screen. The reason for the delay is that, when you type in a Web address, your computer passes it along to another computer, which in turn passes it along to another computer, and so on through as many as 5 computers before it finally reaches the work station of a disgruntled U.S. Postal Service employee, who throws it in the trash.

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