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• The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tool
  he information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools....
• dead link n. [very common] A World-Wide-Web URL that no longer points to the information it was written to reach.
  Usually this happens because the document has been moved or deleted....
• INTERCAL /in't*r-kal/ n. [said by the authors to stand for `Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym'] A computer language designed by Don Woods and James Lyons in 1972.
  INTERCAL is purposely different from all other computer languages in all ways but one...
• econd-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
  `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an {elephantine} feature-laden monstrosity....
• The Oxford Dictionary of Computing, 3rd edition (paperback), 1991 has the following entry on page 323 under OS/2
  OS/2 : An operating system. It has a wimp user interface called Presentation Manager....
• Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
  -- Tom Robbi...
• X windows: You'd better sit down. Don't laugh. It could be YOUR thesis project.
  Why do it right when you can do it wrong? Live the nightmare....
• EMACS /ee'maks/ n. [from Editing MACroS] The ne plus ultra of hacker editors, a programmable text editor with an entire LISP system inside it.
  It was originally written by Richard Stallman in TECO under ITS at the MIT AI lab...