While reading some of the comments to various posts, I often come across the acronym: IMHO. I really hate to admit that I’m not exactly up on IM speak—so to speak—in kinda validates the opinion of some that seniors ar not with it—whatever it is. So I looked it up:
IMHO: An abbreviation for “in my humble opinion,” this term is used in various online communications, such as e-mail messages or postings to newsgroups or BBSs; it usually appears in brackets like this: <IMHO>. Using this term is a way of making sure that others understand that you are merely expressing your opinion on a debatable subject without passing judgment.
THEN I had to look up "BBS" (Basic Bull S***?)
BBS: This is the acronym for Bulletin Board System, a system that lets people read each other's messages and post new ones. The Usenet is, in effect, the world's largest distributed BBS. Typically, the term BBS is used to describe private systems run by individuals that often require membership.
AND THEN I had to look up "Usenet"
Usenet: refers to the collection of newsgroups (sometimes called the Big Eight hierarchies) and a set of agreed-upon rules for distributing and maintaining them. More than 13,000 newsgroups exist around the world and the majority of them are a part of Usenet. However, a fairly large number of alternative newsgroups have emerged outside of Usenet.
This is waaaay too deep for me now—<TTQWSICOMF>*! {:- )
Jay Merton
* “time to quit while still in control of my faculties”
(Glossary of terms courtesy of Learn the Net.com)
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