Acronyms

Off topic as ever but here is a blast from the past

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FOAD
FFS

Rather nasty ones that i admit to using on maybe less than half a dozen occasions over the years...
 
but how amazing was that.. connecting to a computer 100 miles away by phone line...

A super speedy phone line? I remember switching over to a higher baud for connecting to a computer. It's all a very vague and woolly dim and distant memory now. Feels like a different lifetime.
 
Are there really people who don't know the intended meaning of these commonplace acronyms?

I'm with Maxwell here, haven't got a clue what the majority of acronyms means and that includes the common ones as well. So i'm finding this thread very informative.
 
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