Abbreviation DAU - What does that mean?

When chatting in forums, you often come across the abbreviation DAU. In this article, we reveal what exactly is behind it and when you can use DAU yourself.

DAU - That means the abbreviation

The abbreviation DAU comes from the prehistory of IT when data processing was slowly introduced in companies. Back then, everything was managed centrally from a data center in which a mainframe took place.

• At that time, the users were still relatively inexperienced when it came to the IT area, and this led to all kinds of strange situations. This is how the term DAU came about, which was quickly adopted by annoyed IT experts in all data centers.
• The unflattering name was probably derived from the abbreviation GAU. This abbreviation comes from project management and describes the worst case that can occur in a project. Specifically, GAU stands for "Biggest accident to be expected", that is simply the absolute catastrophe.
• The term DAU describes computer users without basic IT knowledge and without understanding of technical relationships. Due to the lack of knowledge, there were often serious operating errors, which were sometimes not easy to correct and cost a lot of time.
• The abbreviation GAU was changed to DAU. DAU means "stupid user to accept" and was or is not necessarily an award that makes you proud.
• Today, the term is used less often, but the abbreviation DAU is no honorary title.

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