Geekspeak still baffles web users

[rocketeddy]

Or does it?

The BBC have published an article this week claiming "Britons are increasingly tech-savvy but are still bamboozled by tech jargon". One of their examples regards RSS, a key resource to many residents of the blogosphere in particular, stating "while 40% of online Britons receive news feeds, 67% did not know that the official term for

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[arioch666]

I think it must be some sort of complex the people who come with these acronyms have. In a lot of cases, as you just exampled, of inventing an acronym that doesn't actually provide any information for what it stands for. Really Simple Syndication? Does that mean its really easy to form a syndicate of some sort? :/

oh well. Having made this comment I'll probably end up doing something similarly meaningless in the future. Its bound to happen. Sod's law.