Sep 25, 2020
100 phrases that would have made no sense when I was young
I was born in 1981, eight years before the World Wide Web was invented. A lot of today's technologies and internet companies didn’t exist then. A whole new vocabulary emerged.
Currently, everyone knows what a phrase like “going online” means. For my children it’s the same as a phrase like “I’m going to school” or “I’m eating dinner”. Recently we went together to the museum of the 20th century. There we saw things like CD’s. Didn’t seem so long ago to me.
Today I was reading an article on the Verge with the following title “Spotify is testing interactive podcast polls within the app”. In need to think about before I understood it. But of course I know what Spotify is, what podcast and apps are. When this was the title of an article of a 1987 newspaper nobody would have a clue what’s about.
100 phrases of the internet era
The following simple phrases would absolutely make no sense when I was young:
We went offline for a while
We binge-watched all weekend
My Bluetooth AirPods
The kids are playing on the Switch
The president tweeted
They hacked his twitter-account
I googled myself
She is a social influencer
He unfriended her
I shopped online
It’s only clickbait
He paid with Bitcoins
I’ll send a WhatsApp
It’s all about big data
A ransomware attack
I’m listening to a podcast
Social media is not doing enough on disinformation
I picked up my smartphone
I watched the live stream
He has the most twitter-likes
I applied through LinkedIn
He was a victim of phishing
I was late for the online meeting
He is getting an Uber
Can you share me your Spotify list
Just download the app
I found it on eBay
She downloaded it from the App Store
My photos in the cloud
Refresh the website
I shared it on Pinterest
I dated on Tinder
the iPhone just arrived
The Wi-Fi is awful in this hotel
China has a social media blockade
I send you the file with Dropbox
This self learning Nest thermostat
This area doesn’t have 5G
One of the best vloggers
He found my IP-address
Alexa and Siri aren’t listening
An interactive Zoom-meeting
He’s an illegal uploader
Pausing a YouTube video
Talked with a chatbot
I write a blog
The VR Headset of the PlayStation
My Fitbit said I was doing well
The Tesla gets an online update
Google’s Pixel 5 design and specs revealed in the latest leaks
Disney Plus is coming to Google Assistant smart displays
We played Pokémon Go in the park
She is making a selfie
Full of spam
#hastagsomething
LOL
they were trolling
A Cupertino error
I was surfing on the internet
He is such a noob
Just down vote him
We must limit their screen time
Such an epic fail
On my Chromebook
They use only SaaS
In-game adds
Bought it on Amazon
This TikTok ban
They booked an Airbnb
With Office 365
Found it on eBay
You should call the API
We should really be adding some gamification
This Freemium product
Texting with a lot of emojis
Please send me a DM
Netflix and chill
Scrolling my Facebook timeline
He is a coder
My streaming subscriptions
My Xbox 360 won't turn on
The tabs of my browser crashed
Epic left the App store
Fortnite started a new season
See you on Google hangout
She is a casual gamer
I was inspired by Pinterest
This connection doesn’t have enough bandwidth
This OLED 4K TV
The internet of things
I caught a computer virus
My mother uploaded the photos to iCloud
Totally photoshopped
She was on Insta
BYOD (Bring your own device)
They held a LAN-Party
Secure VPN access
Just delete your cookies
My page was redirected to another URL
I had a 404
Most phrases are easy to understand, most companies are familiar. Same list published in the 80s would be just random words.
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