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The T3 Techisaurus

Posted by Gareth Beavis on Fri 14 Aug 2009

Scooping up the jargon and filing it under 'Oh now I get it.'

When man first crawled out of the primeval ooze, he was instantly interested in how he could use something to make his life easier. Using his teeth to cut down a tree? He developed the axe. Carrying things? Stuff that, let’s invent the wheel.


Back then, listing the amount of technology he had to deal with would have taken three lines (stone, twine and more stone) but today we have such a plethora of tech that all the acronyms have turned into a veritable cacophony in our brains when browsing through the local branch of Curry’s.


So if the confusion of trying to work out what the difference between composite or component video is making you wet the bed, or you’ve wept when trying to understand why there are two types of Flash and neither is able to clean your kitchen or save the earth from Ming the Merciless, then welcome to the Techisaurus – your key to solving the riddles technology has tried to wrap you up in for so long.


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