{"id":700,"date":"2005-08-09T22:51:35","date_gmt":"2005-08-10T01:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=700"},"modified":"2005-08-09T22:57:10","modified_gmt":"2005-08-10T01:57:10","slug":"computerlogisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=700","title":{"rendered":"computerlogisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">P<\/span>ondering about great contributions I could have on the English language from a technical point of view I came up with the following neologisms that may or may not hit your English Dictionary within 10 years:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;The Internet is getting pretty hot&#8221;<\/strong>: the AC\/DC adapter is getting really warm. Originates from the early 21st century when routers, hubs and other networking devices became mainstream.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Blue or Black?&#8221;<\/strong>: Compare with &#8216;Heads or Tails&#8217;. See also: &#8216;Which colour networking cable are you?&#8217;, an Internet meme that brought Slashdot to its knees. The Self-Slashdotting event of Slashdot, eventually resulted in the demise and fall of the number of blogs on the Internet.\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I see sharp&#8221;<\/strong>: Generally followed with laughter. Rumour has it that &#8216;see sharp&#8217; actually stands for C#, Microsoft&#8217;s programming language that formed the foundation of the current (UN adopted) Microsoft Strawberry Shortcake Operating System\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m on Block 10.&#8221;<\/strong>: Indicates that the person is trying to get his work done. Preferably on his own. (see also, &#8216;Have you been netmasking lately?&#8217;)\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;ve got super-cow powers&#8221;:<\/strong> Compare with &#8216;I had a pretty good day&#8217;. Generally answered by the crowd with a whopping &#8216;moo-moo&#8217; sound.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pondering about great contributions I could have on the English language from a technical point of view I came up with the following neologisms that may or may not hit your English Dictionary within 10 years: &#8220;The Internet is getting &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=700\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}