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Y2K
Stands for "Year 2000." However, this term is more often used to refer to the "Millenium Bug." This bug is a little creature that lives inside older computers. When the year 2000 rolls around, the little bug will self-destruct, blowing up the computer it was residing in. The chain of explosions across the world will be catastrophic, causing global panamonia and LA riots. Also associated with Y2K is the end of the world, which is without doubt, foreshadowed by the dredded Millenium Bug. So, on January 1, 2000, you'll want to make sure you have at least a 5 year's supply of food and water, roughly half a million dollars in cash, and at least 200 acres of land somewhere in Montana. Of course, it doesn't really matter, considering the world will have ended anyway.
Update:
We're past the year 2000 and the world is still going! No Armageddon, no major computer explosions, no nuclear holocaust, even no L.A. Riots... Wow, I guess Y2K wasn't really that bad after all (surprise, surprise). Sorry about those of you who bought 200 acres of land in Montana.
Yagi Antenna
A Yagi antenna is a directional antenna consisting of a driven element such as dipole or folded dipole and additional parasitic elements, typically a reflector and one or more directors. It radiates in only one direction and is most commonly used in point-to-point communications.
A Yagi antenna is used for communications in a medium range of three to five miles between two points. It can also be used as a bridge antenna to connect clients to an access point.
This term is also known as a Yagi-Uda array or patch antenna.
Yahoo
A global internet services company. It operates an Internet portal and provides a full range of products including email, search, chat, and more…
Yak Shaving
Yak shaving is a programming term that refers to a series of tasks that need to be performed before a project can progress to its next milestone. This term is believed to have been coined by Carlin Vieri and was inspired by an episode of "The Ren & Stimpy Show." The term's name alludes to the seeming uselessness of the tasks being performed, even though they may be necessary to solve a larger problem. The process of complicating a simple activity also may be considered yak shaving.
YB
A yottabyte (YB) is a unit of digital information storage used to denote the size of data. It is equivalent to a quadrillion gigabytes, 1,000 zettabytes or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.
Year 2000 Problem (Y2K)
The year 2000 problem (Y2K) was a problematic situation faced by digital (and some non-digital) files and systems due to the practice of using the last two digits instead of four digits when indicating the year in a date. This resulted in 2000 indistinguishable from 1900 by an affected system. This particularly affected machines dealing with real-time events and display of dates.
The year 2000 problem is also known as the Y2K bug, millennium bug, Y2K problem or century meltdown.
Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle (Yahoo)
Yet Another Hierarchically Officious Oracle is the tongue-in-cheek acronym for Yahoo Inc., the large Internet portal that has, at various times, described itself as a platform company, a social networking company, an advertising company or a content company.
Yahoo emerged from the efforts of Jerry Yang and David Filo in 1994, when they put together a collection of other websites, which they called David and Jerr's Guide to the World Wide Web. The list's bookmarks grew long and became arranged in a hierarchical fashion - hence the word in the acronym. The term "oracle" was added because it sounded officious and was supposed to mean authoritative.
Being young Standford graduates with the requisite sense of humor, Yang and Filo likened themselves to the slang definition of a "yahoo," referring to a rude, unsophisticated or uncouth person.
The term "yahoo" first appeared in the novel "Gulliver's Travels", by Jonathan Swift. Yahoos were the deformed, crude, dirty “brutes” of the land of the Houyhnhnms. The Yahoos were depicted as irrational people who represented the worst side of humanity. By contrast, their masters, the wise and gentle Houyhnhnms, were rational horses that represented humanity at its best.
YiB
A yobibyte (YiB) is a unit of digital information storage used to denote the size of data. It is equivalent to 280, or 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176, bytes and equal to 1,024 zebibytes.
Youtube
World’s largest video sharing website. Free to join, upload, and watch.
Yotabyte
A yottabyte (YB) is a unit of digital information storage used to denote the size of data. It is equivalent to a quadrillion gigabytes, 1,000 zettabytes or 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes.
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