Computerese, through management, has managed to get into the general language pretty well. I am not necessarily an expert on Black or Gay or even Science Fiction Fannish dialects. I have no idea whether the gay population in the field would be disproportionately high, but see no reason to suspect so. Most of my gay friends are involved with computers somehow, but this could well be because I met most of them at work. That's why I'm still at it, and not loading boxes at Sears.
People get bitchy, but machines never do.
That's really a frightening statement. If you're not going to be a parasite, you use what you can afford. Furthermore their modems run at 300 baud. The reason is price. This competes quite favorably with the Videotex gizmo that requires that a television be tied up while it is in use and does not cost that much less.