Comment Re:Blogging (Score 1) 144
Just a couple of cents for you:
Keyboard: What else would you call it? Manual Input Device?
Email: Remember, this is derived from electronic mail, which is precisely what it is (although I suppose they have more in common with interoffice memos [to, from, subject, etc], so perhaps they should have been called electronic memos.)
Floppy disks: were floppy at one point, so hard disk is a viable term to differentiate the two.
World Wide Web: described as such because the pages were intended to be, through hyperlinks, interconnected, creating a 'web' of documents.
And of course, blog is short for web log, which used to be nothing more than interesting links found on the web. It has since grown beyond that description (perhaps at the same time the word was shortened to blog; which, personally, I hate.
Most names seem to have been chosen because they were the simplest term available, like memory. Memory is how the computer remembers things, more or less. And as your post clearly indicates, it does not take a special, new, 'non-lame' word for a concept to catch on.
Keyboard: What else would you call it? Manual Input Device?
Email: Remember, this is derived from electronic mail, which is precisely what it is (although I suppose they have more in common with interoffice memos [to, from, subject, etc], so perhaps they should have been called electronic memos.)
Floppy disks: were floppy at one point, so hard disk is a viable term to differentiate the two.
World Wide Web: described as such because the pages were intended to be, through hyperlinks, interconnected, creating a 'web' of documents.
And of course, blog is short for web log, which used to be nothing more than interesting links found on the web. It has since grown beyond that description (perhaps at the same time the word was shortened to blog; which, personally, I hate.
Most names seem to have been chosen because they were the simplest term available, like memory. Memory is how the computer remembers things, more or less. And as your post clearly indicates, it does not take a special, new, 'non-lame' word for a concept to catch on.
