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Yahoo
- a global Internet communications, commerce and media company that offers a comprehensive branded network of services to more than 120 million users each month worldwide. As the first online navigational guide to the World Wide Web, Yahoo is a major guide in terms of traffic, advertising, household and business user reach, and is one of the most recognized brands associated with the Internet.
Yellow book
- the book that explained the standards set forth by Phillips/Sony for CD-ROM recording. see red book.
Ymodem
- an asynchronous protocol for transferring data developed by Chuck Forsberg that extends the capabilities of Xmodem by increasing the size of data blocks.
yotta
- metric prefix meaning X 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
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A few words from Tech Support:
"Don't learn the proper name for anything technical. We know exactly what you mean by "my thingy's outta whack"."
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