15 TECH Conditions of the 90s No One Uses Anymore
I have to fellow and start so that I can skip back on this information highway!
Remember how to start your computer? Or worry about Y2K? In the era of technology, things move very quickly, and our more-technology terms so that any other form of jargon seems embarrassing exceptional retrospectively. In this spirit, here are 15 technology terms of the 90s-dot-com-bubble days that are guaranteed to feel old now. So good reading, and we will catch you on the information highway. And for more fun ways of look back, here is the40 things we should all be grateful in 2017.
1 AOL DIALIP
No modern internet experience can be compared to the pleasure of hearing the bee-bee-dsshhhhhhhhhhhhhh that marked your climb in the web worldwide.
2 defrag
Reorganizing the data on your computer to get it to work faster. When did this last time you did?
3 Y2K
2000 has been the most exciting new year ever, as you deducted software waiting to take fire spontaneously at midnight because of Y2K- a computer bug that would cause a software to think the year 2000 was the year 1900. Fortunately, the new century has been welcomed largely without incident.
4 To restart
Before you "restart" you used to use "reboot" to describe the arduous process to put your computer in standby and wake up again to make it work properly. And for biggest trivia, here's30 warned words to make you ring smarter.
5 cypherpunk
Despite the fact that he has the word "punk" in her, a cypherepunk was actually someone who advocated the widespread use of strong cryptography (writing in the code) as a way to protect your privacy . Julian Assange was an important voice in the Cypherpunk movement since he started in the 80s.
6 Dot-com
The word that people used for an internet company before the technological bubble broke out and we changed "startup".
7 Netizen
Literally, a net citizen, back when we thought like another set, exotic country.
8 phreaking
This just medium hacking of the telephone system, which is as exciting as it may seem.
9 Publisher
Another word that sounds vaguely sexual that simply means "to publish online. »
11 Screen saver
Nowadays, computers just go to sleep to save the battery, so over time you have to choose a beautiful ocean view or tropical forest as a special monitor.
12 palmtop
A palmtop a "quite small and light computer that will be held in the hand. "Seems familiar? Back In the 90s, the pocket PC, with its small keyboard and adorable smart pen, was the best way to show people around you that you were a boss. Then the iPhone arrived.
13 digerati
It is like "gliterrati" (which is a combination of gliterr and literators to designate the intellectual elite) with the exception applied to technology.
14 Information Highway
In fact, the internet, the back when we were really, really excited about it.
15 zettaoctet
The scale for storage is Kilo, Mega, Giga, Tera, Peta, Exa and Zetta. The way we go, this one could actually take a day!
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