Uncyclopedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Computer science, computing, and Internet
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Computers and Internet[edit source]
- Bots - including Chatbots, SEO spambots, web crawlers, Discord bots, and the like.
- CSS (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- ENIAC (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Freeware (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Google Spiders
- JewOS
- Left swipe
- Machine translation (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Megabyte (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Memory leak (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Nagware (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) - currently redirects to Shareware
- Tablet computer
- Zann (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- A page on rule 34 that looks like rule 34 with green stripes and use of image title
Apps and software[edit source]
- Tinder - redirects to Online dating
- MySpace
- Twitter version X
- Mobile games
- Cloud storage
- Game console
- Nintendo Wii
- Nintendo Wii U
- Online games
- Opera (browser)
- Crowdsourcing
- Crowdfunding
- Online casino
Distributed computing[edit source]
- Distributed computing (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) a.k.a. Grid computing (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt), specific software of which includes:
- Cloud computing (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
Formats[edit source]
- GIF (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- JPEG (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- XML (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
Hacking and security[edit source]
- 2600 Magazine (technically called 2600: The Hacker Quarterly) (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Buffer overflow (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Data Encryption Standard (DES) (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)/Triple DES (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) - Note: DES also stands for diethylstilbestrol; work this in somehow
- Firewall (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) - but there is also a movie by this name
- Ping of death (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Phreaking (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Piggybacking (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Rootkit (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Scambaiting (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Social engineering (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Stuxnet (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) - maybe see User:Lctmu/UnNews:Israel developed the virus 'Facebook' to undermine Iranian productivity
- Transport Layer Security (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) with redirect from SSL
- Technical support phone scam - (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
Hardware[edit source]
- Binary fountain pen (fictitious item formerly mentioned at Floppy disk; refers to a floppy drive's read/write head?) (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Brick (electronics) (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- External hard drive (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Firmware (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Intel 4004 (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) - Part of a series on Intel CPUs? Not actually used in a computer per se, but this is the best place I could think of for this request
Networking[edit source]
This section is about the normal operation of computer networks. For network vulnerabilities, see Hacking and security (above).
- 5G Network (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) - and they said it would kill or brainwash us all.
- 56K Dialup Modem - yup, 56 kilobauds. Connected via phone line, old-school like they did in the 90s, accompanied by text browsers and browsers that took 30 minutes (I kid you not) to load ONE full-screen picture.
- Bandwidth (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Content delivery network (abbreviated CDN) (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Electronic bulletin board or BBS (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- FTP - File Transfer Protocol. This goes way back to the days of dial-up internet.
- ISP or Internet service provider (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Linksys (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) - and mention the error message "Upgrade are failed!" shown by their home routers for firmware upgrades
- Mozilla Thunderbird (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Network Administrator (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) - maybe a day in the life of?
- OSI model (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Robots exclusion standard (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) or Robots.txt (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Search engine - currently redirects to Nipple Search Engine.
- Transmission Control Protocol (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) - perhaps make it something about STDs or car transmissions? - Note that TCP is currently an article on a different topic (The Canadian Communist Party); it will need to be moved, and then the redirect will need to be replaced with a disambiguation.
- Telnet (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) - I can't think of how to set it out, maybe with an Uncyclux-esque style to it? Or just a normal lay-out?
Social Networking[edit source]
- Free to Play games (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Microtransactions (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Profile picture
- Social media (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Snapchat (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
Internet slang[edit source]
Robotics[edit source]
Software development[edit source]
- Beta test/Beta tester, part of the software release life cycle (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)
- Concurrent Versions System (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) (abbreviated CVS; maybe mention in the same article as CVS/pharmacy?)
Systems administration and tech support[edit source]
- BOFH or Bastard Operator From Hell (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt), see rm *, Game:Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle/rm and Robert Heinlein#Life for context; references newer stories older stories
- I am service - message from preinstalled software on some Asus (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) computers; see also The Daily WTF post
- kill -9 (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt) - possible redirect to UnNews:Linux: Every time you use EXT3, Hans Reiser kills again?
- NOSMOKE.EXE, see [1], BOFH usage, and wikipedia:Magic smoke
- PLBKAM - Problem Lies Between Keyboard And Monitor (User error); better known as PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard and Chair) (un f wm gun | g img gwp wp yt)