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Man, only in the world of tech would a line of otherwise-gibberish mean something, lol.
It'd be like if I walked into an IT department and said 'Look, the new Klarbeltoogin 45 Mark 2 Foverkappin with double the totenomble is here!' and everybody just went 'Oh cool!' like they knew exactly what I was talking about. :P
Ha you only think this is unique to tech because you don't have experience of it in other fields.
I suppose that's fair, though it does seem to plague tech particularly. Or maybe it's just that tech is more public-facing about its nonsensical names and designations for shit.
None of this is nonsensical though.
You could easily have something like that about e.g. mountain biking: