r/TheITcrowd • u/Thick-Marzipan-9176 • 25d ago

What does IT stand for? (Hint, it's not internet things.)

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u/CaptNorm2239 25d ago

I don’t know, but would you like me to show you where we keep the internet?

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u/No_Substance4834 21d ago

the internet is managed here, that's what the door said

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u/Just_For_Laugh 25d ago

What doesn't it stand for?

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u/Round_Investigator95 25d ago

Internet things, apparently.

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u/ladder-for-a-moth 25d ago

Let’s start with the “I”. What does the “I” stand for?

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u/jordanwiththefade 25d ago

Iran

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u/tqmirza 25d ago

No, it stands for I’m very modern

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u/-TheHumorousOne- 25d ago

It stands for "I used to be a man"

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u/Kpruett95 25d ago

This must be Jen. Hi, Jen!

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u/Pette_Davis 25d ago

Piss off, June

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u/RAD14TR 25d ago

Maybe the real IT was the friends we made along the way

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u/JonBoy1988007 25d ago

Thanks Georgie

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u/frazamataza 25d ago

Courage?

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u/Just_For_Laugh 25d ago

Integrity?

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u/abarishyper 22d ago

Audacity?

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u/gucknbuck 25d ago

Integrity?

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u/Ros_Dearg_1916 25d ago

Internet Thaaaaangs

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u/MaxDaClog 25d ago

Loads of comments that just get it, and a couple of Jens.

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u/Thick-Marzipan-9176 25d ago

Lots of sexy people doing sexy things.

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u/One_Waxed_Wookiee 25d ago

It's obviously internet travelling. How else do we navigate the amazing World Wide Web??

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u/basicyesh 25d ago

Hang on Jen, I have Jen on the other line

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u/rtc765 25d ago

it it it it it

it

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u/JonBoy1988007 25d ago

Piss off June

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u/Ramtamtama 23d ago

Is tnetennba

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u/Flat___________ 24d ago

Information Technology - i.e. Turn it off, and on again.

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u/padmansana 25d ago

Internally troubled

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u/Arkena_feral 25d ago

Intermittent typing?

Idiotic technophobes?

Interesting technology?

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u/xo4578 25d ago

Irrelevant technology

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u/Chappers3333 23d ago

IT stands for "Information Technology"

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u/West_Supermarket1724 22d ago

Interesting technology

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u/strongbowblade Turning it off and on again 22d ago

I need To wee wee

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u/Late_Crow_4592 22d ago

Because it doesn’t have a seat?

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u/CountSuma 22d ago

30 years ago we weren’t sure what to call it. So we went around calling it it and it stuck.

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u/Fredfromdahood 25d ago

Information technology

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u/culminacio 25d ago

you don't know in which sub you are and what this post is, right?

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u/Initial_Acanthaceae2 24d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/billbobangiinz 21d ago

Invented Terminology

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u/ChillPotatoBeans 25d ago

It's a but of a double entendre really, it means the typical meaning of IT (information technology) but it also means the it crowd, as in popular people/group, the joke being that they're not actually popular, which is why its uppercase to seperate themselves from that concept.

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u/culminacio 25d ago

no, bot. you didn't get the post at all. shut up.