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21 Aug, 2008 - 01:02 PM
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Complete the abbreviations & win this clock!

It's easy. Simply be the 1st to provide the full wording to the provided 10 technology based abbreviations, & I'll send the winner this promotional clock.
  1. GNU
  2. DIC
  3. HTTPS
  4. IBM
  5. DSL
  6. SCSI
  7. PCMCIA
  8. IEEE
  9. OSI
  10. ASCII
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Nothing too glamorous, it's plastic & is about the same size as a cell phone.

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21 Aug, 2008 - 01:19 PM
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21 Aug, 2008 - 01:32 PM
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That was fast.

Shows how much people want a freebie!
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21 Aug, 2008 - 01:34 PM
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Sloth, fast... am I the only one that finds this funny?

Anyhow, NO! Sloth, in all of his awesomeness, missed one!

At least Satan finally gets to see some snow.

Other takers?
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Well which one(s) is/are wrong? sleep.gif

Attempt #2:
  1. GNU's Not Unix
  2. Digital Input Channel <|----- EDIT: CHANGED!
  3. Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer
  4. International Business Machines
  5. Digital Subscriber Line
  6. Small Computer System Interface
  7. Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
  8. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  9. Open Systems Interconnect <|--- there's no "ion" on the end of it!
  10. American Standard Code for Information Interchange

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21 Aug, 2008 - 01:56 PM
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I can't tell you which ones are wrong. Then people can narrow it down easier.

But I can tell you this :

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21 Aug, 2008 - 01:56 PM
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I think it's number 2. Did you see my edit?

2. Digital Computer.

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Girasquid won? It was just Dream In Code? I thought that would be too obvious, so I didn't try it!

URGH

Oh well, I tried...

By the way, there are so many for DIC:
http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/DIC
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