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cybercrud

cybercrud noun: computer jargon that serves to obscure and confuse.

Noun

cybercrud (uncountable)

  1. Computer jargon that serves to obscure and confuse.
    • If the signature is formatted innocuously, it just looks like cybercrud in the mail header to non-crypto-capable recipients.2002, Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, Mike Speciner, Network Security: Private Communication in a Public World, page 510
  2. Any worthless material supplied by or relating to computers.
    • The headaches of junk mail fiber-crud pale beside the anxieties triggered by vivid multimedia cybercrud, served up on optical disks and communication links.1989, Personal Computing, volume 13, page 213

Origin of cybercrud

From cyber- + crud; coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in Computer Lib (1974).

Questions about cybercrud

What does cybercrud mean?
Cybercrud means computer jargon that serves to obscure and confuse.
What part of speech is cybercrud?
Cybercrud is a noun.

Words near cybercrud in the dictionary

  1. cybercritic
  2. cybercriticism
  3. cybercritics
  4. cybercrook
  5. cybercrooks
  6. cybercrud
  7. cybercult
  8. cybercults
  9. cybercultural
  10. cyberculturally
  11. cyberculture

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