WhatIs

July 11, 2001 8:54 PM

WhatIs - Definitions for thousands of the most current IT-related words. Not everyone knows about this site. It is pretty helpful for a quick lookup for anything computer related.
posted by sikander (3 comments total)

So thats what a thing is.
posted by davehat at 9:01 PM on July 11, 2001

ROTFLMAOPMPWDHWMTHO Dave!

Oh hang on, annoying chat acronyms aren't featured..

/me wacks himself round the head with an ASCII fish of some description, or something, and goes off to change his trousers.
posted by Kino at 5:56 AM on July 12, 2001

whatis.com is a site that makes me weep. They used to be all homegrown and shit. Then they got bought, and broke their site. I ranted about it roughly 2 years ago. Basically their redesign did not account for their old link style. That stinks, because URLs should live forever. Or couldn't they just make a system like php.net where if you just type the domain and add a string, it attempts to find it in their function reference - like so http://www.php.net/print. You can find the old version at this mirror - rudy.ca pointed this out not too long ago.

Oh, and why does this matter? Because sometimes, URL is UI.
posted by artlung at 8:32 AM on July 12, 2001