Computer Nerd Acronyms Quiz

This is really helping me learn these nerdy terms! :D

I'm definitely not a computer nerd yet. I got 7/20.

Ha I only got 3.

oh come on!!! graphic user interface isn't acceptable?!?

Technically, only a few of these are actual acronyms. in order to be an acronym, it has to be pronounceable. If it isn't, it's actually an initialism.

Didn't know that! Definitely going to use it and impress my friends. :)

I learnt that from Hank and John Green

Sounds like something a nerd would say!

I recognised alot of these Acronyms but then realised I didn't know what they stood for

Easy 20/20

How is it that the definition for GNU also contains the same acronym "GNU"? What does it stand for?

look up recursive acronyms

gnu is a recursive acronym, a puny custom very used in open source names. i like PHP = PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

i dont no any of them...

Is 11/20 bad? I feel like I did pretty good.

0/20, due to my taking of random quizzes...

20/20 in 2 mins and 10 seconds.

GNU is not really an acronym

Isn't it an animal?

I did a little research, and GNU is a recursive acronym, but also named for the animal, the gnu. So, their GNU, named after the gnu, is similar to Unix but "Not Unix" My first attempt, without cheating at all (only tab opened in Firefox) was 15/20, afterwards I was able to easily get 20/20 because then I knew what those other 5, which are also the 5 least guessed acronyms of everyone tested, were.

So you're proud of being able to get 100% AFTER the answers are given? - JK

Not really bothered that I didn't know many of these, in theory it means I am not a nerd!!!

8/20. Oh well, not a nerd after all.

I guess being a geek didn't help me here. This is a test for nerds. 7/20

WHOA!! im not a nerd- i didnt think itd be that hard - def didnt get a single one! - n imma kinda glad :)

GNU's Not Unix makes GNU a recursive acronym. It's like PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor).

I got 16/20 - should have been more, but I blanked on DOM and USB, of all things!

1/20 lol. I got OS & that's it.

another recursive is Bing = Bing is not Google

20/20 (I've been in the field a long time). Not acronyms, but my favorites are TWAIN (Technology Without An Interesting Name) -- a printer/scanner technology and PCMCIA (People Can't Memorize Personal Computer Acronyms) which in reality is the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association.

"GNU is not Unix" should work.

Second -- that's how I learned it.

Have taken computer classes throughout my high school career and I still only got a 15/20. I guess I really am not a computer nerd

nerds are generally better-off financially (see Gates, Bill; Allen, Paul; Jobs, Steve) than the general population. I myself got 7/20.. but studying up!

it should be: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) not Socket, or at least let the official version through too!

GNU's Not Unix! High School IT class paid off! =D

You scored 15/20 = 75%. Not bad eh! lol

SSL also stands for Solid State Language, that tripped me up for a minute.

Is a Cathode Ray Tube a real computer term?

Yep, up until the early 2000s most computer monitors were CRTs, before the flat-panel LCDs became cheaper and freed up all that room on our desks.

1/20 only knew IRC

Sequential Query Language needs to be added for SQL.........

I've never seen that one. I was mistakenly thinking "Standard" myself, but neither of these exist apparently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL

20/20 with 0:19 left! I'd be ashamed if i hadn't got 20/20, because i'm an IT Technician

Sure. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_Ray_Tube (I grew up with monitors like these, and now I feel kind of old. :P )

hey! when i was 3,i used the internet

thank you computer class!! :D

this is just like one of our exams in data communications...:D

just to clarify... the G in GNU stands for GNU? that has to be the stupidest thing I have ever heard.

My favorite geek acronym is PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair.