Computer humour, also known as hacker humour, is humour on the subject of computers or their users. Examples of computer humour include: "Any key", taken...

In computer jargon, blinkenlights are diagnostic lights on front panels of old mainframe computers. More recently the term applies to status lights of...

The Computer Contradictionary is a non-fiction book by Stan Kelly-Bootle that compiles a satirical list of definitions of computer industry terms. It was...

software in general is one placed in the "make" command for PDP-6/PDP-10 computers sometime in October 1967–October 1968, wherein if the user attempts to...

In computer science, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) is the concept that flawed, biased or poor quality ("garbage") information or input produces a result...

The Jargon File is a glossary and usage dictionary of slang used by computer programmers. The original Jargon File was a collection of terms from technical...

academic studies, including a 2024 paper presented at SIGBOVIK, a satirical computer science conference organized by Carnegie Mellon students, which caught...

"Computer says no" is a catchphrase widely believed to have been first used in the British sketch comedy television programme Little Britain in 2004. There...

In computer engineering, Halt and Catch Fire, known by the assembly language mnemonic HCF, is an idiom referring to a computer machine code instruction...

a complex system, usually a computer system, in interacting with it. Although the term is sometimes used by human–computer interaction practitioners, the...

Erwin passes the Turing test with flying colours, and has a dry sense of humour. He is an expert on any subject that is covered on the World Wide Web, such...

different projects serve as "a reminder that the underlying processes of computers are still made by humans". Brunswick's site went viral in the hours following...

The Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH) is a fictional rogue computer operator created by Simon Travaglia, who takes out his anger on users (who are "lusers"...

In computer networking, IP over Avian Carriers (IPoAC) is an ostensibly functional proposal to carry Internet Protocol (IP) traffic by birds such as homing...

Unknown. Transcript of a talk of the schizophrenic chatbot PARRY with the computer simulated psychiatrist ELIZA (a.k.a 'The Doctor') which both fail the Turing...

In computer programming and software engineering, the ninety-ninety rule is a humorous aphorism that states: The first 90 percent of the code accounts...

snowclones have been used in the titles of at least 65 critical essays in computer science and related disciplines. Its use in this context originated with...

was a fictional computer created by Steve Wozniak. Adam Schoolsky and Randy Wigginton helped him to pull it off at the West Coast Computer Conference. It...

A TPS report ("test procedure specification") is a document used by a quality assurance group or individual, particularly in software engineering, that...

The International Obfuscated C Code Contest (abbreviated IOCCC) is a computer programming contest for code written in C that is the most creatively obfuscated...

system would resume after the user pressed any keyboard button. Early computers were typically operated using mechanical teleprinters, which provided...

than in the early years of the Oracle's existence, when fewer casual home computer users had Internet access. Most Oracularities are significantly longer...

Leo Laporte for MSNBC's computer and technology TV series The Site. Dev/null is also the name of a vampire hacker in the computer game Vampire: The Masquerade...

for the PC. Young Dilbert in Hi-Tech Hijinks — 1997; A Dilbert-branded computer game aimed at teaching young children about technology. Dilberito — 2000;...

In computer science, FINO is a humorous scheduling algorithm. It is an acronym for first in, never out as opposed to traditional first in, first out (FIFO)...

In computer programming, COMEFROM (or COME FROM) is an obscure control flow structure used in some programming languages, originally as a joke. COMEFROM...

rapidly advancing computer industry. In 1998, Sadasivam first considered the idea of creating a webcomic about a family of computer geeks while taking...

The Obfuscated Perl Contest was a competition for programmers of Perl which was held annually between 1996 and 2000. Entrants to the competition aimed...

punched cards and the EBCDIC character set. To allow INTERCAL to run on computers using ASCII, substitutions for two characters had to be made: $ substituted...

engineers and technicians, which was later adopted by programmers and computer scientists. The jargon file, a compendium of historical and current hacker...