Computer Connections
Term for a system of interconnected computers & devices; a LAN is a "local area" one
Network
2015: "I gotta... grow 3 years worth of food... on a planet where nothing grows... luckily, I'm a botanist"
The Martian
German gave us this word for a child prodigy
Wunderkind
You can "get off on the right" one (yay!) or have one "in the grave" (yikes!)
Foot
Set not in Hyrule but rather on the Isle of Koholint, "Link's Awakening" is a 2019 Nintendo release in this game series
The Legend of Zelda
Nations get their own domain extensions; .dk is the one for this country
Denmark
A 2003 cartoon: "All drains lead to the ocean"
Finding Nemo
From the Arabic for "zero", it can mean zero or a coded message
Cipher
Don't get "tied up in" these measures of speed at sea
Knots
Referring to a false promise, "The cake is a lie" became a famous meme that sprang from this Valve game
Portal
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee gets questions like "Why are links" this color? -- his response? "There is no reason"
Blue
2009: "You're not in Kansas anymore, you're on Pandora"
Avatar
This word for income is from the French for "return"
Revenue
"The whole 9" these means all the way
Yards
The long-awaited upcoming sequel to this PlayStation game revisits Ellie and Joel after a cross-country trek filled with zombies
The Last of Us
Microsoft's Internet Explorer uses "favorites" where other browsers use this word from the non-wired world
Bookmarks
2017: "I had no father. My mother sculpted me from clay & I was brought to life by Zeus"
Wonder Woman
This 5-letter word from the Dutch is sailors' talk for "stop that!"
Avast!
The arrangement of words in rhythmic verses gives a poem this pattern
meter
In 2019, Sony revived this odd-looking fellow who had to avoid Coily while jumping from level to level
Q*bert
Your online shopping cart couldn't stay up to date without these data packets that help websites track you
Cookies
2013, Clooney to Sandra Bullock: "Nobody special? Somebody down there looking up, thinking about you?"
Gravity
You don't have to be part of it to know "intelligentsia" is from this language
Russian
It's a unit of time, or what you do when you express formal support of a motion
A second
This classic arcade game is the sequel to it's space-faring sibling, Galaxian