I asked a number of techno-savvy, creative people the following questions ~ and was amazed at how many of these really clever people didn't know the answers:
which made me feel rather intelligent for a nano-second:
So I'm building up my techno language ...
URL ... Universal Resource Locator
FTP ... File Transfer Protocol
RSS ... Really Simple Syndication
[feeds – also known as RSS feeds or XML feeds, contain frequently updated content published by a website]
[sic] ... Latin for 'thus'. Usually used when quoting another source that contains errors, to indicate that these errors are in the original material that you are quoting.
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and just for fun:
PTQ ... Page Turning Quality
Gillian
URL - can also be Uniform Resource Locator, but exactly the same thing. A few more for you...
ReplyDeleteXHTML - Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, and
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets, both are associated with the creation of web pages.
Here's one for the writers:
Stet - Latin meaning 'Let it stand' familiar to those who proof read.
Here's one for the creatives: what are 'H & Js'?