Computer jargon

Computer jargon means words to do with computers and surrounding topics. Knowing what these words mean can help you know more about computers. Most people use these words to discuss computer ideas, but some people use these words to impress others (Also known as buzzwords).

Examples of jargon:

• Disk - A place to store data.
• Data - Information stored on a computer. The amount of data that is stored on a disk is measured with the following terms

• Bit - The smallest data unit, can either be a "0" or a "1"
• Nybble - there are 4 bits in a Nybble
• Byte - there are 8 bits in a byte
• Kilobyte - There are 1000 Bytes in a Kilobyte
• Megabyte - There are 1000 Kilobytes in a Megabyte
• Gigabyte - There are 1000 Megabytes in a Gigabyte

• Upload - Put data on somewhere, for example,a internet or a site, "I uploaded my pictures to facebook"
• Download - Take data from somewhere, for example, "I downloaded a song from iTunes"
• Load - Get data from, or put it on, a disk
• Save - Put data on a disk
• RAM - Memory, the more the better.
• ROM - Memory too, but you can only get data from it.

• Hardware - The solid, hand-touchable things in or that connect to a computer, like monitor, fans, cpu, ...
• CPU - Central Processing Unit, another name for processor
• GHz - Gigahertz. Used to describe the speed of a processor. Some processors are capable of doing more than one thing at once as they have multiple "cores", so a bigger number is not necessarily better. The bigger the GHz number the more it spends energy.

• USB - A method to plug computer tools in to a machine.
• Email - Electronic mail.
• WWW - World Wide Web, part of the Internet
• Broadband - A way to connect to the internet
• WiFi - A way to connect to a network wirelessly
• Plug & Play - A function from the OS that auto-recognizes any change to the hardware of the computer.
• OS - Operating System. The main program that controls all the computer functions, it calls other programs.

• Program - Set of Data that tells processor what to do, and call for in the rest of pc.
• Software - Another name to program.
• Installation - The way a software sets the place for itself in your computer.
• Virus - Bad software made to mess up your computer, destroy data, nothing good come from it.
• Hacker - People who search flaws in the way computers work. They can use it for evil too.