On a FB post I'd made (that had nothing to do with the Internet), a friend commented, "As long as some yahoo doesn't come along and ban it!"
My immediate response, "As long as Google doesn't ban it..."
lawman
7:57 pm on Aug 18, 2015 (gmt 0)
I can't think of any internet slang or other related terms that I use in real life.
lucy24
8:12 pm on Aug 18, 2015 (gmt 0)
Just wait for the day your car's engine starts making a bing sound.
Kendo
9:01 pm on Aug 18, 2015 (gmt 0)
Bing has been around forever. So have its cousins, bang, bong and bung.
lucy24
12:20 am on Aug 19, 2015 (gmt 0)
Funny, I've never found the bungbot in my logs.
tangor
3:26 am on Aug 19, 2015 (gmt 0)
Cars make a pinging sound. Just looking for an IP address.
I do hear kids saying LOL and BTW and TTFN (though they say "tiffin". But what I get a kick out of is radio talk show hosts reading emails over the and saying "emoji" without a clue. (Some email programs replace emoticons with the word emoji.
ergophobe
10:08 pm on Aug 21, 2015 (gmt 0)
I can't think of any internet slang or other related terms that I use in real life.
The one I hear all the time is "bandwidth". As in, "I'd love to work on that, but I just don't have the bandwidth right now."
Of course, some words make it into the language and we forget where they come from.... when I look in the dictionary I bought my freshman year of college, it does NOT list "receive comments or criticism" as a possible meaning of "feedback." In 1980, that was still an engineering term.
