Q: My highly technical grandson keeps talking about cookies, cash, firewalls, mall-ware, and fishing. He’s very much part of the digital era, but I’m old school and have no idea what any of this means. Can you please offer up a few definitions?

A: The techie world is awash in acronyms and terminology that can stump even the most savvy. No reason to be embarrassed that you’re getting a bit lost when your grandson starts rattling off the latest jargon!

This happens in all fields and industries, allowing experts to talk with more precision, but digital denizens seem to be more prone to it than most. Well, except maybe doctors, who have a language all their own, to the dismay of everyone who has tried to understand a diagnosis.

To start, “cookies” are tiny text sequences that your web brows

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