Enjoy this IT joke... Heights...

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IT Heights... HEIGHT OF ISOLATION: Two persons sitting side by side using emails to communicate with each other. HEIGHT OF COWARDICE: Two persons fighting through emails. HEIGHT OF HELPLESSNESS: Receiving no emails for a week. HEIGHT OF FRUSTRATION: The email server being down. HEIGHT OF CARELESSNESS: Writing a love mail and doing a 'Send All.' HEIGHT OF TIMEPASS: A person sending email to himself HEIGHT OF EXPECTATION: Sending Indian cricket team an e-mail, wishing them to win a match HEIGHT OF REPETITION: Forwarding an email to someone and receiving the same email forwarded back to you By some one in the receiving chain. HEIGHT OF BROWSING: U r swimming in the water tank and shout 'F1 F1 F1 ' instead of shouting 'HELP' when u are unable to swim... Got from somewhere... thought it's a nice one and must share with you all...Googlue!

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History of IT names:

 

NOT A JOKE...

COPIED FROM SOMEWHERE...

MODS: YOU NEED NOT COUNT THE POST...

JUST FOUND IT INTERESTING... & INFORMATIVE...

 

LG - combination of two popular Korean brands Lucky and Goldstar.

 

Linux - Linus Torvalds originally used the Minix OS on his system which he replaced by his OS. Hence the working name was Linux (Linus' Minix). He thought the name to be too egotistical and planned to name it Freax(free + freak + x). His friend Ari Lemmke encouraged Linus to upload it to a network so it could be easily downloaded. Ari gave Linus a directory called linux on his FTP server, as he did not like the name Freax.

(Linus' parents named him after two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling)

 

Lotus (Notes) - Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or 'Padmasana'. Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

 

Microsoft - coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

 

Mozilla - When Marc Andreesen, founder of Netscape, created a broswer to replace Mosaic (also developed by him), it was named Mozilla (Mosaic-Killer, Godzilla). The marketing guys didn't like the name however and it was re-christened Netscape Navigator.

 

ORACLE - Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called Oracle(the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the company.

 

Red Hat - Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers

to return his Red Hat if found by anyone !

 

SAP - "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by 4 ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.

 

SCO (UNIX) - from Santa Cruz Operation. The company's office was in Santa Cruz.

 

Sony - from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

 

SUN - founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for Stanford University Network.

 

UNIX - When Bell Labs pulled out of MULTICS (MULTiplexed Information and Computing System), which was originally a joint Bell/GE/MIT project, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie of Bell Labs wrote a simpler version of the OS. They needed the OS to run the game Space War which was compiled under MULTICS. It was called UNICS - UNIplexed operating and Computing System by Brian Kernighan. It was later shortened to UNIX.

 

Xerox - The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say dry' (as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying). The Greek root `xer' means dry.

 

Yahoo! - the word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

Edited October 1, 2004 by googlue (see edit history)

[mobileunlocking 0]

shouldnt the joke be moved into the joke forum?Mick

[wassie 0]

oke./MOVED

[mobileunlocking 0]

told you it should have been in this forum :(Mick

[googlue 0]

OK, Sorry I was not aware where the humour section was...I was actually wondering why there is ni humour section!Thanks mobile for recommending move to the appropriate section!Googlue!

[mobileunlocking 0]

ok no problem but why have you posted the same mssage twice lol.ill get rid of 1 of them.Mick

[proskiier23 0]

pretty funny, i like height of carlessness the best hahaha