How hip are you to Internet slang?

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Techno-sophisticates that they are, AdFreak’s readers know all about podcasting, adware and the like. It turns out, though, that many other Internet users are hazy about some of the terminology that has grown up around the Web. A survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project asked Internet users to say how conversant they are with a number of terms. (You can check out a PDF of the survey results here.) Spam proved to be the best known, with 88 percent saying they “have a good idea” what it means.

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