Word: acronymically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Little Junior asks Kilmartin to come up with an acronym to define his life (Little Junior's is B.A.D.), Kilmartin replies, "F.A.B.--Fucked At Birth." "Kiss of Death" needs no acronym. This film can stand...
...judging by its advance press, the most dreaded computer program since the Michelangelo virus. SATAN, which is an acronym for Security Administrator Tool for Analyzing Networks, was designed by Farmer and a fellow programmer to help network administrators scan their computers for the technological equivalent of an unlocked back door -- a security hole that could be exploited by unauthorized users looking for a way to break in. By locating the cracks in their computer systems, administrators could patch them before they sprang leaks...
...through the list of local BBSes. Brief stops at nearby fantasy- game systems, electronic porn parlors and digital meet-a-date services proved tiresome. A few weeks of arguing with cyberfeminists in alt.soc.women on Usenet taught me that all was not fun and games. Then I found the WELL, acronym for Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. ``Hello,'' I typed in. ``I'm new around here and don't know what to do next...
...Round, president of the Harvard Association for Equality of Opportunity in the Pornographic Arts (that's HAEOPA--you would have thought they could come up with a snappy acronym), believes that male genitalia are highly undervalued by imagemakers. "Where is Playgirl when you need it?" he asked in an interview with The Crimson. "Porn makers shouldn't discriminate. Harvard guys have just as much to offer as the Cliffies...
...cows hardly represent the limits of ASCII art. Even something as complex as a rendition of the Mona Lisa-composed of letters, semi-colons, dollar signs and other miscellaneous symbols-is possible. ASCII (pronounced "ask-ee") is an acronym for American Standard Code for Informational Interchange. Or, for the computer neophyte, you're standard keyboard text...