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Title: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Thu, 14 January 2016, 13:24:05
"Intranet"
"Hub"
"ISDN"

Post your favorite outdated IT words.....or don't, and watch us IT people do it. =D

Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: SpAmRaY on Thu, 14 January 2016, 13:26:34
geek
hack
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: FLFisherman on Thu, 14 January 2016, 13:28:08
I like the term "bug."

In 1946, when Hopper was released from active duty, she joined the Harvard Faculty at the Computation Laboratory where she continued her work on the Mark II and Mark III. Operators traced an error in the Mark II to a moth trapped in a relay, coining the term bug. This bug was carefully removed and taped to the log book. Stemming from the first bug, today we call errors or glitches in a program a bug.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: beehatch on Thu, 14 January 2016, 13:29:03
geek
hack

yur so clever it hurts
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: hashbaz on Thu, 14 January 2016, 13:29:13
Information Superhighway
"the net"

I'm so glad we all just say internet now. :D
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: dgneo on Thu, 14 January 2016, 13:29:26
token ring
NT
bonzi buddy
dialup
handshake
pda
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: redbanshee on Thu, 14 January 2016, 13:30:54
Internet Privacy
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: baldgye on Thu, 14 January 2016, 13:33:49
webmaster
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Waateva on Thu, 14 January 2016, 13:43:12
World Wide Web
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: madhias on Thu, 14 January 2016, 13:46:21
Floppy disk
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Thu, 14 January 2016, 13:53:35
"Intranet"

Do people not use this word anymore?  :confused:
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Findecanor on Thu, 14 January 2016, 13:55:42
"Graphics accelerator"

I loathe "information superhighway" and "web surfing". I sometimes write the latter word, but with an 'e' because it is more descriptive that way ...
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: baldgye on Thu, 14 January 2016, 13:58:55
"Intranet"

Do people not use this word anymore?  :confused:

...yes
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:00:46
"Intranet"

Do people not use this word anymore?  :confused:

...yes

Okay. So what is the new word now? And why did it change? We still have local networks that host internal services for companies, no? What should I be calling this now?
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: baldgye on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:04:17
"Intranet"

Do people not use this word anymore?  :confused:

...yes

Okay. So what is the new word now? And why did it change? We still have local networks that host internal services for companies, no? What should I be calling this now?

oh wait I read your post wrong, I thought it read "do people still use this word" ...
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Waateva on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:05:58
Turbo button

I just recently learned that the Turbo button actually slowed down your computer to allow compatibility with programs that otherwise wouldn't have run on the newer, faster chips that were coming out.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:21:14
Internet Privacy

good one

Okay. So what is the new word now? And why did it change? We still have local networks that host internal services for companies, no? What should I be calling this now?

LAN
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: trizkut on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:24:20

Okay. So what is the new word now? And why did it change? We still have local networks that host internal services for companies, no? What should I be calling this now?

LAN


And if they can still VPN into that network?
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:24:44

Okay. So what is the new word now? And why did it change? We still have local networks that host internal services for companies, no? What should I be calling this now?

LAN


And if they can still VPN into that network?

LAN
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: inanis on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:29:04
Okay. So what is the new word now? And why did it change? We still have local networks that host internal services for companies, no? What should I be calling this now?

LAN
Intranet is right. LAN is a much broader term. At least that his how I feel.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:36:01
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find out that most IT shops in WI still use the word "Intranet" :))
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: dgneo on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:38:55
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4364

Quote
If all the sites in a VPN are owned by the same enterprise, the VPN may be thought of as a corporate "intranet".  If the various sites in a VPN are owned by different enterprises, the VPN may be thought of as an "extranet".  A site can be in more than one VPN; e.g., in an intranet and in several extranets.  In general, when we use the term "VPN" we will not be distinguishing between intranets and extranets.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149

Quote
This memo describes an experimental method for the encapsulation of IP datagrams in avian carriers.  This specification is primarily useful in Metropolitan Area Networks.  This is an experimental, not recommended standard.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:42:24
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4364

Quote
If all the sites in a VPN are owned by the same enterprise, the VPN may be thought of as a corporate "intranet".  If the various sites in a VPN are owned by different enterprises, the VPN may be thought of as an "extranet".  A site can be in more than one VPN; e.g., in an intranet and in several extranets.  In general, when we use the term "VPN" we will not be distinguishing between intranets and extranets.

That RFC was written in 2006. VPN can terminate in any part of the network you configure, by no means is it restricted to an Intranet. You can have a VPN terminiate in your DMZ, LAN, WAN, wherever you want.

You should read the RFC from 2015 good sir, the word Intranet isn't used once.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: dgneo on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:43:13
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4364

Quote
If all the sites in a VPN are owned by the same enterprise, the VPN may be thought of as a corporate "intranet".  If the various sites in a VPN are owned by different enterprises, the VPN may be thought of as an "extranet".  A site can be in more than one VPN; e.g., in an intranet and in several extranets.  In general, when we use the term "VPN" we will not be distinguishing between intranets and extranets.

That RFC was written in 2006. VPN can terminate in any part of the network you configure, by no means is it restricted to an Intranet. You can have a VPN terminiate in your DMZ, LAN, WAN, wherever you want.

You should read the RFC from 2015 good sir, the word Intranet isn't used once.

Oh I know it's out of date, that's the point of the thread :thumb:

See my edit for IP via Avian :P
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:43:50
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4364

Quote
If all the sites in a VPN are owned by the same enterprise, the VPN may be thought of as a corporate "intranet".  If the various sites in a VPN are owned by different enterprises, the VPN may be thought of as an "extranet".  A site can be in more than one VPN; e.g., in an intranet and in several extranets.  In general, when we use the term "VPN" we will not be distinguishing between intranets and extranets.

That RFC was written in 2006. VPN can terminate in any part of the network you configure, by no means is it restricted to an Intranet. You can have a VPN terminiate in your DMZ, LAN, WAN, wherever you want.

You should read the RFC from 2015 good sir, the word Intranet isn't used once.

Oh I know it's out of date, that's the point of the thread :thumb:

See my edit for IP via Avian :P

We still friends? :)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: dgneo on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:46:17
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4364

Quote
If all the sites in a VPN are owned by the same enterprise, the VPN may be thought of as a corporate "intranet".  If the various sites in a VPN are owned by different enterprises, the VPN may be thought of as an "extranet".  A site can be in more than one VPN; e.g., in an intranet and in several extranets.  In general, when we use the term "VPN" we will not be distinguishing between intranets and extranets.

That RFC was written in 2006. VPN can terminate in any part of the network you configure, by no means is it restricted to an Intranet. You can have a VPN terminiate in your DMZ, LAN, WAN, wherever you want.

You should read the RFC from 2015 good sir, the word Intranet isn't used once.

Oh I know it's out of date, that's the point of the thread :thumb:

See my edit for IP via Avian :P

We still friends? :)

(https://49.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m61nqjL92Z1qb67tjo1_500.gif)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:47:32
tape backups
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: inanis on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:50:22
tape backups
It is outdated....it it is what we still use (in part). SO PAINFUL!

Thank goodness that **** isn't my job.  :p
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:50:39
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find out that most IT shops in WI still use the word "Intranet" :))

Wow.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: katushkin on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:51:35
If it's not a publicly accessible internet, it's an intranet. Just because you can use remote access to get to it, doesn't mean it's not called an intranet.

To clarify, I'm talking about an internal internet page for employee self service and stuff, not just your personal files and stuff.

tape backups

We were still using these a year ago...
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Thu, 14 January 2016, 14:52:00
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find out that most IT shops in WI still use the word "Intranet" :))

Wow.

Please rate our cyber-friendship on a scale of 1-10..
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Thu, 14 January 2016, 15:12:53
If it's not a publicly accessible internet, it's an intranet. Just because you can use remote access to get to it, doesn't mean it's not called an intranet.

To clarify, I'm talking about an internal internet page for employee self service and stuff, not just your personal files and stuff.

I admit I'm not in IT, but this is was I was always taught.  Seems strange to just abandon a term when the technology is largely the same (unless I missed something).

tape backups

We were still using these a year ago...

Last I heard, Google keeps emails backed up on tape backups.  Maybe that changed too though.  :))

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find out that most IT shops in WI still use the word "Intranet" :))

Wow.

Please rate our cyber-friendship on a scale of 1-10..

That's a small range...hmm.  11?
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Thu, 14 January 2016, 15:16:01
That's a small range...hmm.  11?

(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/29/59/f4/2959f41c779cb056e84006cd55844662.gif)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Waateva on Thu, 14 January 2016, 15:16:51
tape backups

We were still using these a year ago...

Last I heard, Google keeps emails backed up on tape backups.  Maybe that changed too though.  :))

My friend did IT work for 5/3 Bank and as of about 2-3 years ago they still used tape backups as well.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Thu, 14 January 2016, 15:18:54
That's a small range...hmm.  11?

Show Image
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Yeah except I was responding in binary since IT thread.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Thu, 14 January 2016, 15:22:08
That's a small range...hmm.  11?

Show Image
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/29/59/f4/2959f41c779cb056e84006cd55844662.gif)


Yeah except I was responding in binary since IT thread.

Our relationship is Simplex then?? I'm just throwin love at ya and nothing in return? rude..
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: cryptokey on Thu, 14 January 2016, 15:23:19
"Intranet"

Do people not use this word anymore?  :confused:

Most big companies have intranets; I'd say its still in use.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Thu, 14 January 2016, 15:24:06
That's a small range...hmm.  11?

Show Image
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/29/59/f4/2959f41c779cb056e84006cd55844662.gif)


Yeah except I was responding in binary since IT thread.

Our relationship is Simplex then?? I'm just throwin love at ya and nothing in return? rude..

:-*  no ur rood
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Thu, 14 January 2016, 15:24:37
That's a small range...hmm.  11?

Show Image
(https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/29/59/f4/2959f41c779cb056e84006cd55844662.gif)


Yeah except I was responding in binary since IT thread.

Our relationship is Simplex then?? I'm just throwin love at ya and nothing in return? rude..

:-*  no ur rood

reporting you to Halv..
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: cryptokey on Thu, 14 January 2016, 15:27:04
tape backups

We were still using these a year ago...

Last I heard, Google keeps emails backed up on tape backups.  Maybe that changed too though.  :))

My friend did IT work for 5/3 Bank and as of about 2-3 years ago they still used tape backups as well.

I'm surprised they're still in use with hard drives getting so cheap, being much faster, and lasting longer.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: fohat.digs on Thu, 14 January 2016, 15:28:30
"The C prompt"
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: hashbaz on Thu, 14 January 2016, 16:23:49
Most big companies have intranets; I'd say its still in use.

Can vouch. My company's internal portal is still referred to in conversation as "the intranet".

"The C prompt"

I miss the days of the C prompt tbh. :)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Thu, 14 January 2016, 16:25:59
I miss the days of the C prompt tbh. :)

DOS 6.22 was all we needed..
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: dgneo on Thu, 14 January 2016, 16:36:12
We still have an intranet. 95% of our company calls it SharePoint, I like to call it hell.

We used tapes as well up until last year. It's still a viable cold storage option, and not a bad one at that. The backup software used to write to the tapes on the other hand....(LOOKING AT YOU BACKUPEXEC)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: katushkin on Thu, 14 January 2016, 16:42:19
We still have an intranet. 95% of our company calls it SharePoint, I like to call it hell.

We used tapes as well up until last year. It's still a viable cold storage option, and not a bad one at that. The backup software used to write to the tapes on the other hand....(LOOKING AT YOU BACKUPEXEC)

We have an internal SharePoint on out intranet  :p both get used for different things.

Oh god, and the massive robot we used to store, write to and eject our tapes was enormous. Now there is a huge space where it once was, and all our tapes got destroyed. Lol.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: azhdar on Thu, 14 January 2016, 16:42:41
intranet is still used term yo.

serial port.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Dongulator on Thu, 14 January 2016, 16:45:55
Best thread, you can tell who's in the IT world, who's a dev and so on.
But a phrase I never hear anymore is "Ribbon cable"
or
CD Tray,CD Drive, pretty much anything to do to with a CD is obsolete.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: katushkin on Thu, 14 January 2016, 16:47:07
Mainframe

And CMDB in my organisation apparently...
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: hashbaz on Thu, 14 January 2016, 16:50:32
Best thread, you can tell who's in the IT world, who's a dev and so on.
But a phrase I never hear anymore is "Ribbon cable"
or
CD Tray,CD Drive, pretty much anything to do to with a CD is obsolete.

CD-ROM :))
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Dongulator on Thu, 14 January 2016, 17:00:03
Best thread, you can tell who's in the IT world, who's a dev and so on.
But a phrase I never hear anymore is "Ribbon cable"
or
CD Tray,CD Drive, pretty much anything to do to with a CD is obsolete.

CD-ROM :))

Just using the word Rom is so old. right, Computers used to have Ram and Rom... Ughh I'm getting old
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Waateva on Thu, 14 January 2016, 17:22:46
We still have an intranet. 95% of our company calls it SharePoint, I like to call it hell.

We used tapes as well up until last year. It's still a viable cold storage option, and not a bad one at that. The backup software used to write to the tapes on the other hand....(LOOKING AT YOU BACKUPEXEC)
Oh god, and the massive robot we used to store, write to and eject our tapes was enormous. Now there is a huge space where it once was, and all our tapes got destroyed. Lol.

Like the machine that Vanessa Williams uses to steal the railgun files in the movie Eraser?
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: katushkin on Thu, 14 January 2016, 17:27:20
We still have an intranet. 95% of our company calls it SharePoint, I like to call it hell.

We used tapes as well up until last year. It's still a viable cold storage option, and not a bad one at that. The backup software used to write to the tapes on the other hand....(LOOKING AT YOU BACKUPEXEC)
Oh god, and the massive robot we used to store, write to and eject our tapes was enormous. Now there is a huge space where it once was, and all our tapes got destroyed. Lol.

Like the machine that Vanessa Williams uses to steal the railgun files in the movie Eraser?

I have not seen that movie.

But it was basically a self contained storage/robot/drive enclosure that sat at the end of our DC. Probably about 18ft long, 6ft wide and 10ft high. You could walk in there and there were these robot arms on rails, and tapes stacked in two sections about 12 tapes high. A lot of storage space, but most of it was empty by the time we decom'd it because we have moved everything to virtual. Finally.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Pdub on Thu, 14 January 2016, 20:52:00

"Intranet"

Do people not use this word anymore?  :confused:
Some companies do.

I don't think anyone uses HDD any more. It's all SSD now. Am I right? :)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: katushkin on Thu, 14 January 2016, 20:54:35

"Intranet"

Do people not use this word anymore?  :confused:
Some companies do.

I don't think anyone uses HDD any more. It's all SSD now. Am I right? :)

Our main data domains are all HDD, but our blades are all SSDs.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Pdub on Thu, 14 January 2016, 20:55:27


"Intranet"

Do people not use this word anymore?  :confused:
Some companies do.

I don't think anyone uses HDD any more. It's all SSD now. Am I right? :)

Our main data domains are all HDD, but our blades are all SSDs.

What kind of blades?
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: katushkin on Thu, 14 January 2016, 21:10:27


"Intranet"

Do people not use this word anymore?  :confused:
Some companies do.

I don't think anyone uses HDD any more. It's all SSD now. Am I right? :)

Our main data domains are all HDD, but our blades are all SSDs.

What kind of blades?

Uhhhh, HP ProLiant Gen 7 stuff.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Krytone on Thu, 14 January 2016, 22:01:32
Shared Drive
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: LXXXIX on Thu, 14 January 2016, 22:17:08
cyber

;)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: katushkin on Thu, 14 January 2016, 22:45:50
Shared Drive

Lol... Still use it XD
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: atectatifern on Thu, 14 January 2016, 23:06:44
instream data
EBCDIC
timesharing (but see "cloud")
terminal (but see "endpoint")
partitioned data set
COMMON block
baud rate
JOB card
finger
DD statement
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Krytone on Fri, 15 January 2016, 00:38:16
Shared Drive

Lol... Still use it XD

We just changed and now use sharepoint for additional security
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Snowdog993 on Fri, 15 January 2016, 00:42:07
Okay. So what is the new word now? And why did it change? We still have local networks that host internal services for companies, no? What should I be calling this now?

LAN
Intranet is right. LAN is a much broader term. At least that his how I feel.

That is correct.

I will edit to make it more clear.  You can have several intranets in a LAN.  It's not the other way around.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Jokrik on Fri, 15 January 2016, 00:42:57
Bus cable
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: jaffers on Fri, 15 January 2016, 00:45:36
HDD
Windows
AMD CPU
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: sean on Fri, 15 January 2016, 00:47:56
HDD
Windows
AMD CPU

Those burn like a 220w tdp
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Krytone on Fri, 15 January 2016, 00:49:46
Cobol
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: animal on Fri, 15 January 2016, 00:54:41
Insert disk labeled "whatever" and press any key to continue...

And some funny ones

General failure reading drive c:
Who is general failure and why is he reading my disk?

Keyboard not connected press F1 to continue...

Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Snowdog993 on Fri, 15 January 2016, 00:54:55
ISA
EISA
VESA
RLL
MFM
Math Co-Processor (x87)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: animal on Fri, 15 January 2016, 00:56:55
ISA
EISA
VESA
RLL
MFM
Math Co-Processor (x87)

ESDI
ERROR 1701
SIMM (memory)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Snowdog993 on Fri, 15 January 2016, 01:05:43
ISA
EISA
VESA
RLL
MFM
Math Co-Processor (x87)

ESDI
ERROR 1701
SIMM (memory)

ERROR 1701!!!!!!  How could I forget that? 
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: hashbaz on Fri, 15 January 2016, 01:13:22
AUTOEXEC.BAT
CONFIG.SYS
MEMMAKER.EXE

shareware
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Snowdog993 on Fri, 15 January 2016, 01:14:09
AUTOEXEC.BAT
CONFIG.SYS
MEMMAKER.EXE

shareware

QEMM
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: sth on Fri, 15 January 2016, 01:45:07
mouse balls
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: hashbaz on Fri, 15 January 2016, 01:54:31
mouse balls

Cleaning the schmutz out of mouse ball rollers with a Rambo knife.

[attach=1]
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: rm-rf on Fri, 15 January 2016, 01:59:22
bulletin board system!
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Niomosy on Fri, 15 January 2016, 02:21:37
tape backups

Audit came down hard for going strictly to virtual tape with no offsite backups.  The storage team had to put in new tape units to back up from the VTL disk pool and send the tape offsite.  I had to build a couple new servers to handle that as well as additional server backups.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: rowdy on Fri, 15 January 2016, 04:22:52
"bureau system" - all the kids call it "cloud services" these days.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Lurch on Fri, 15 January 2016, 04:31:23
WINS
NT4
Citrix Metaframe

Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: baldgye on Fri, 15 January 2016, 04:36:30
winfs
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Lurch on Fri, 15 January 2016, 04:38:24
SCSI/scuzzi drives
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Findecanor on Fri, 15 January 2016, 04:41:16
cyber
As in a IRC channel: "Hey girl, wanna cyber?" ...

bulletin board system!
I have not heard "BBS" in a long time, but people use "board" about boards such as this one ...
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: baldgye on Fri, 15 January 2016, 04:45:16
ASL
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Lurch on Fri, 15 January 2016, 04:46:27
broadband
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: keshley on Fri, 15 January 2016, 07:09:09
cyber

;)

This one bugs the hell out of me. It sounded lame 20 years ago, why is it a buzzword now?

I heard somebody say "memory chips" yesterday. Haven't heard that in a long time.

I half agree with Lurch on SCSI, except the last S in SAS stands for SCSI...

CPU (Not in reference to the processor, but to the computer itself)
Mainframe (A Hollywood staple)
PATA
MFM
FD
NDS
Nuke and Pave
8.3
Apple Talk
Token Ring
CMOS
Defrag
IPX
GUI (pretty much replaced with UI/UX)
Dot Matrix
CRT
VLB/EISA/ISA... etc
Color Graphics Array
Microprocessor
Zip (now we compress or archive, we don't 'zip' files)
IRQ (I hear interrupt or interrupt requests, but not the old school IRQ anymore)
Y2k
SIMM
Daughter board
Standalone (still a thing, but not called this anymore)
Terminator (for both thin/thicknet and old school SCSI)
Vax
Warm boot
Hard reset

I'm sure I could come up with more...

And can we please retire the term Cable Modem... they neither modulate nor demodulate.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Computer-Lab in Basement on Fri, 15 January 2016, 07:31:20
Dot Matrix

I wish this was the case where I work... our day-to-day operations rely heavily on paper tickets printed on dot matrix printers.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Nai_Calus on Fri, 15 January 2016, 07:51:12
IPX/SPX and Netware in general.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Fri, 15 January 2016, 07:52:17
IPX/SPX and Netware in general.

Good one, AppleTalk = worst network protocol NA.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Fri, 15 January 2016, 08:02:41
bulletin board system!
I have not heard "BBS" in a long time, but people use "board" about boards such as this one ...

We use BBS tags on this forum all the time.  :P
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Fri, 15 January 2016, 08:04:26
We use BBS tags on this forum all the time.  :P

(https://sfdcinsea.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/batman-facepalm.gif?w=300&h=210)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Fri, 15 January 2016, 08:08:36
We use BBS tags on this forum all the time.  :P

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wat did i do  :(
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Fri, 15 January 2016, 08:10:10
We use BBS tags on this forum all the time.  :P

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wat did i do  :(

You mean BBCodes? BBS is bulletin board....can't take you anywhere...ugh.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Fri, 15 January 2016, 08:11:07
We use BBS tags on this forum all the time.  :P

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wat did i do  :(

You mean BBCodes? BBS is bulletin board....can't take you anywhere...ugh.

Yeah I meant BBCodes.  :-[  I'm the worst.  Are they not even related??

/me leaves this thread  :(
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Fri, 15 January 2016, 08:11:53
We use BBS tags on this forum all the time.  :P

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wat did i do  :(

You mean BBCodes? BBS is bulletin board....can't take you anywhere...ugh.

Yeah I meant BBCodes.  :-[  I'm the worst.  Are they not even related??

/me leaves this thread  :(

Ok, now I feel bad...come back hoff. Give me your kishsaver and we'll be friends again.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Fri, 15 January 2016, 08:13:44
Yeah I meant BBCodes.  :-[  I'm the worst.  Are they not even related??

/me leaves this thread  :(

Ok, now I feel bad...come back hoff. Give me your kishsaver and we'll be friends again.

Nuuuuu, I've been trying so hard to fit in but now I have revealed my poor IT knowledge!  There's no coming back from this shame.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Fri, 15 January 2016, 08:14:15
Yeah I meant BBCodes.  :-[  I'm the worst.  Are they not even related??

/me leaves this thread  :(

Ok, now I feel bad...come back hoff. Give me your kishsaver and we'll be friends again.

Nuuuuu, I've been trying so hard to fit in but now I have revealed my poor IT knowledge!  There's no coming back from this shame.

True..it will take time..
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: keshley on Fri, 15 January 2016, 08:25:30
We use BBS tags on this forum all the time.  :P

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wat did i do  :(

You mean BBCodes? BBS is bulletin board....can't take you anywhere...ugh.

Yeah I meant BBCodes.  :-[  I'm the worst.  Are they not even related??

/me leaves this thread  :(

Silly Hoff.

BBS is kind of like what you'd call a forum today. Except you (typically) had to dial into them with a modem. They did a lot more than just forums though, could include chat rooms, multi-player games, etc.

Assuming they're related isn't a reach if you look at the acronyms. BBS: Bulletin Board System. BBCode: Bulletin Board Code. So if you've never used a BBS, it would be reasonable to think BBS is related to a modern forum.

They're still some BBSes around from what I understand. I was never big on them personally.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Fri, 15 January 2016, 08:26:18
We use BBS tags on this forum all the time.  :P

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wat did i do  :(

You mean BBCodes? BBS is bulletin board....can't take you anywhere...ugh.

Yeah I meant BBCodes.  :-[  I'm the worst.  Are they not even related??

/me leaves this thread  :(

Silly Hoff.

BBS is kind of like what you'd call a forum today. Except you (typically) had to dial into them with a modem. They did a lot more than just forums though, could include chat rooms, multi-player games, etc.

Assuming they're related isn't a reach if you look at the acronyms. BBS: Bulletin Board System. BBCode: Bulletin Board Code. So if you've never used a BBS, it would be reasonable to think BBS is related to a modern forum.

They're still some BBSes around from what I understand. I was never big on them personally.

KICK HIM WHILE HE'S DOWN!!
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: davkol on Fri, 15 January 2016, 08:26:29
VESA
VESA is still used, but not in that context. It's a standards organization after all. For instance, we still have VESA mode on Linux systems, and people tend to call the VESA MIS standard for monitor mounts just "VESA".
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: animal on Fri, 15 January 2016, 11:35:27
ASL

Old enough/yes/anywhere
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: animal on Fri, 15 January 2016, 12:13:10
Someone mentioned shareware, I liked public domain more. But the best shareware program ever developed was by far Terminate! In fact I used Terminate when I connected the first time to the internet
BBS? Yeah I had one, I even had a Fidonet node 2:410:30/thirthysomething! which reminds me:
ATZ
OK
ATX3
OK
ATT
OK
ATC2
AT&W
OK
Xmodem
Zmodem
v.32 v32bis and v.EVERYTHING (except for ZYX16800)
NS16650
Norton Commander was my best friend, along with the utilities
Norton Disk Doctor and editor
Norton Speeddisk (disk caching)
Another great program (shell actually)
4DOS
Qedit. It was a DOS editor which had no problem at all to open very extremely large text files
And for multitasking Quarterdeck's Deskview
I could go on and on... those were the days :)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Niomosy on Fri, 15 January 2016, 13:26:22
HDDs are still in use.  We use them plenty at work because SSDs are nice and all but when you need many petabytes of data and need multiple tiers of data, HDDs are still far cheaper.

As for mainframes.  Yeah, not really.  They're still huge with various companies.  I've watched companies spend millions upon millions trying to do one thing; replace their mainframe.  The main problem with mainframes is lack of people to support them.  I'm not sure I know anyone familiar with mainframes in the US that's under the age 50.  I've tinkered with them in a mainframe emulator (Hercules) running MVS 3.8j as well as having had access to them at work but IBM mainframes, at least, are a different world of computing.

For my list.

SNA - I was so glad when some companies we work with killed their SNA requirement.  I had to support SNA services running on AIX.  Supported it on Solaris at a previous job.  What a pain. 
VMS
AOS (Data General's competitor to VMS)
VSOS (Wang's competitor to VMS)
Dynix/ptx (Sequent's Unix, bought by IBM)
DEC Alpha - remember how those were going to be the future?
SGI Irix
Cray Unicos
DR DOS
Amiga - I kid, sort of
Atari ST
DB25
ATDT!  Hey, if we're doing AT commands, we need that one.

Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: inanis on Fri, 15 January 2016, 13:29:49
Here is one I miss hearing (not really)...

"Has anyone checked the Majordomo server?"
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Fri, 15 January 2016, 13:38:17
Majordomo

Major Domo?

(http://i.imgur.com/6KQgTDo.jpg)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: inanis on Fri, 15 January 2016, 13:44:12
Majordomo

Major Domo?

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Hahaha!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majordomo_%28software%29 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majordomo_%28software%29)
Basically, it is a mailing list software. So before people could all get online and easily chat there were these mailing list servers that you could email and have it go out to all the recipients. We had one that ran on old ass Spark hardware using an equally old version of Solaris. I HATED IT.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: rm-rf on Fri, 15 January 2016, 13:49:07
modem drivers
ISA slot
AGP slot


And for someone that said SCSI drives. I still use them :\
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: hashbaz on Fri, 15 January 2016, 13:50:54
Zip (now we compress or archive, we don't 'zip' files)

I still zip files all the time. I just don't use PKZIP.EXE anymore.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: davkol on Fri, 15 January 2016, 14:04:03
ISA cards are still used in some industries.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: N3RDLY on Fri, 15 January 2016, 14:23:17

Okay. So what is the new word now? And why did it change? We still have local networks that host internal services for companies, no? What should I be calling this now?

LAN


And if they can still VPN into that network?

VLAN! (Just kidding please don't throw your other shoe at me)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: dgneo on Fri, 15 January 2016, 14:33:47
scanreg /restore
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: davkol on Fri, 15 January 2016, 16:54:47
ZIP floppies…
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: G-Dubs on Wed, 17 February 2016, 01:46:04
"Classful Networking". I got my AA in networking a few years ago and the curriculum still had it. I'm getting better at using CIDR jargon, but every now and then I start referring to classful IP ranges, which a bad habit I really need to break out of.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: gain on Wed, 17 February 2016, 02:02:50
DB25

I'd love to pair Centronics 36 with this one, a contract I did last year exposed me to the wonders of old label printers and how some companies simply cannot let go of their aging units.

What's interesting to me is that they're not -that- old either.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Glenmael on Wed, 17 February 2016, 02:55:40
HTFUP

(Harden The F- Up)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Lokomotivet on Wed, 17 February 2016, 03:46:34
Virus
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: hashbaz on Wed, 17 February 2016, 13:05:44
programmer

Apparently we're "coders" now. When did that happen?
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: dgneo on Wed, 17 February 2016, 13:09:18
programmer

Apparently we're "coders" now. When did that happen?

(https://media.giphy.com/media/xTiTnjFNBP5xYOeyTS/giphy.gif)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: N3RDLY on Wed, 17 February 2016, 16:13:39
9-5
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: rowdy on Wed, 17 February 2016, 20:01:41
programmer

Apparently we're "coders" now. When did that happen?

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AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: smknjoe on Wed, 17 February 2016, 20:24:58
programmer

Apparently we're "coders" now. When did that happen?

Yep. Sort of like calling a writer (or author) a "texter".
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: LXXXIX on Wed, 17 February 2016, 20:37:42
programmer

Apparently we're "coders" now. When did that happen?

Yep. Sort of like calling a writer (or author) a "texter".

I've never heard this term used this way before. :confused:
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: smknjoe on Wed, 17 February 2016, 20:51:26
Coding or texting? It could be argued that it's strange to call an author a "texter" because the "body" of his work is text. Therefore, It could be said that it's equally strange to call a programmer a "coder" because the "body" of his work is code.

Programmers have traditionally called: programmers, software engineers, or developers. Coder is another term for programmer that's really only become mainstream in the last 5-10 years.

Edit: I don't care either way...just sayin' I agree with Hashbaz that it sounds a little strange when you think about it...
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: hashbaz on Wed, 17 February 2016, 20:53:43
Feels like it coincided with the "everyone can/should code" movement.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: tp4tissue on Wed, 17 February 2016, 21:19:35
VESA
VESA is still used, but not in that context. It's a standards organization after all. For instance, we still have VESA mode on Linux systems, and people tend to call the VESA MIS standard for monitor mounts just "VESA".

I still can't believe those guys get paid for what's essentially ball parking how far apart to place screw holes..  .. oh that's a big monitor, gotta be like what 100 mm.. yea that sounds bout right.. u owe me $100 for that thx....
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Liocer on Thu, 18 February 2016, 00:38:18

"Intranet"
"Hub"
"ISDN"

Post your favorite outdated IT words.....or don't, and watch us IT people do it. =D

How is intranet outdated?
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: deductivemonkee on Thu, 18 February 2016, 00:41:55
Life is an IT word I have never heard
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: hashbaz on Thu, 18 February 2016, 00:59:43
How is intranet outdated?

We had this debate a page or so back. :)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: xtrafrood on Thu, 18 February 2016, 01:10:03
HDD jumper settings
EIDE/IDE
The word 'Application'
Title: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Liocer on Thu, 18 February 2016, 01:24:53
How is intranet outdated?

We had this debate a page or so back. :)

Yeah I read up after the post ;)

Can I add... sysop
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 18 February 2016, 03:39:16
programmer

Apparently we're "coders" now. When did that happen?

Yep. Sort of like calling a writer (or author) a "texter".

And calling a computer a programmee :))
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Findecanor on Thu, 18 February 2016, 04:20:48
Intel Iris Graphics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS_GL).
AMD Jaguar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar) microarchitecture.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Waateva on Thu, 18 February 2016, 09:18:29
Intel Iris Graphics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS_GL).
AMD Jaguar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar) microarchitecture.

Man, I wanted a Jaguar SO BAD when I was younger.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: N3RDLY on Thu, 18 February 2016, 23:10:37
Intel Iris Graphics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS_GL).
AMD Jaguar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar) microarchitecture.

Man, I wanted a Jaguar SO BAD when I was younger.

So did I lol and a Neo Geo.

Another word I don't hear as much these days is VGA
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: xtrafrood on Thu, 18 February 2016, 23:34:02
Intel Iris Graphics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS_GL).
AMD Jaguar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar) microarchitecture.

Man, I wanted a Jaguar SO BAD when I was younger.

So did I lol and a Neo Geo.

Another word I don't hear as much these days is VGA
Same here. I remember reading about them in random video game books I would find at the library.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: swill on Thu, 18 February 2016, 23:37:21
Cloud...

Haha.  Companies everywhere are cloud washes their products and about 2% of the population actually knows what it even means...
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: jdcarpe on Thu, 18 February 2016, 23:42:08
Cloud...

Haha.  Companies everywhere are cloud washes their products and about 2% of the population actually knows what it even means...
Cloud just means your stuff is on someone else's computer. ;)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: swill on Fri, 19 February 2016, 00:06:31
Cloud...

Haha.  Companies everywhere are cloud washes their products and about 2% of the population actually knows what it even means...
Cloud just means your stuff is on someone else's computer. ;)
Haha. Ya, I saw that sticker on the interwebs. That was well played. :)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: rowdy on Fri, 19 February 2016, 03:07:43
Intel Iris Graphics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS_GL).
AMD Jaguar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar) microarchitecture.

Man, I wanted a Jaguar SO BAD when I was younger.

So did I lol and a Neo Geo.

Another word I don't hear as much these days is VGA

I saw VGA recently in the news - people saying that VGA was finally dead.

:))
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: davkol on Fri, 19 February 2016, 06:35:44
programmer

Apparently we're "coders" now. When did that happen?
Standardization of the industry, I suppose. More division of labor, at least in corporate environment.

IMHO there are relatively large semantic differences.

A coder a specialist, that writes code, but doesn't do architecture/design (or other high-level decisions); they don't have to be programming though (e.g., if they write only HTML&CSS). Just like a tester only tests the product.
A software developer, on the other hand, does a little bit of everything.
And a programmer is anyone, who programs machines, including CNC, in which case you probably wouldn't call them a developer.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: hashbaz on Fri, 19 February 2016, 09:59:46
Those divisions have always existed. What's new is I now hear people talk about going to school to "learn to code", or getting asked "you're a coder aren't you?"

Even junior programmers design their solutions to match the requirements of the specs that they're given by higher-ups. Coding used to refer literally to just the typing part of writing a computer program, but now people seem to view the whole process as coding.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: davkol on Fri, 19 February 2016, 10:07:57
Not to such extent. I like this analogy with plumbing (http://www.lessonsoffailure.com/developers/software-plumbing-mad-science/).
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: N3RDLY on Fri, 19 February 2016, 13:38:22
Cloud...

Haha.  Companies everywhere are cloud washes their products and about 2% of the population actually knows what it even means...
Cloud just means your stuff is on someone else's computer. ;)
Haha. Ya, I saw that sticker on the interwebs. That was well played. :)

You mean like the one I have on my work laptop. (https://scontent-lax3-1.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/e15/11378806_500209376798016_477609423_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTAxODI1MzgzNjcwOTQzNTQzNQ%3D%3D.2)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: xtrafrood on Fri, 19 February 2016, 14:05:41
Cloud...

Haha.  Companies everywhere are cloud washes their products and about 2% of the population actually knows what it even means...
Cloud just means your stuff is on someone else's computer. ;)
Haha. Ya, I saw that sticker on the interwebs. That was well played. :)

You mean like the one I have on my work laptop.
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I need that on a shirt.

(Found it!  :p )
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: rm-rf on Fri, 19 February 2016, 14:13:08
micons.... animated icons.

https://micons.wordpress.com/category/hans-peter-br%C3%B8ndmo/
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: katushkin on Fri, 19 February 2016, 14:17:59
"We don't need Data Centres anymore, we'll just put it all on the cloud!"

So, in someone else's Data Centre?
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: swill on Fri, 19 February 2016, 14:50:57
Cloud...

Haha.  Companies everywhere are cloud washes their products and about 2% of the population actually knows what it even means...
Cloud just means your stuff is on someone else's computer. ;)
Haha. Ya, I saw that sticker on the interwebs. That was well played. :)

You mean like the one I have on my work laptop.
Show Image
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Yep. That's the one. :)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: swill on Fri, 19 February 2016, 14:52:48
"We don't need Data Centres anymore, we'll just put it all on the cloud!"

So, in someone else's Data Centre?
Ya basically.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: engicoder on Fri, 19 February 2016, 15:29:29
For the old guys:

ABEND
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: smknjoe on Fri, 19 February 2016, 18:41:50
Coding used to refer literally to just the typing part of writing a computer program, but now people seem to view the whole process as coding.

Yep, and the code itself.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: atectatifern on Fri, 19 February 2016, 20:47:59
For the old guys:

ABEND
e.g. 804, need more core
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: RabRhee on Fri, 19 February 2016, 21:13:39
Winchesters
Plotters
Prestel
Luggable
RS232 / Serial mouse
BRS - Big Red Switch
Assembler
CS:IP
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: SpAmRaY on Fri, 19 February 2016, 21:37:57
Winchesters
Plotters
Prestel
Luggable
RS232 / Serial mouse
BRS - Big Red Switch
Assembler
CS:IP

Plotters is outdated?

I supposed we are supposed to call them large format printers? :P

ps: whats up? :thumb:
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: engicoder on Fri, 19 February 2016, 22:30:12
For the old guys:

ABEND
e.g. 804, need more core

My favorite was 222, somebody hates you
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: RabRhee on Sat, 20 February 2016, 01:06:47
Winchesters
Plotters
Prestel
Luggable
RS232 / Serial mouse
BRS - Big Red Switch
Assembler
CS:IP

Plotters is outdated?

I supposed we are supposed to call them large format printers? :P

ps: whats up? :thumb:

Hey man :>

Do you call the large format printer a plotter, or is it actually still a proper pen plotter? No-one I know uses a pen plotter anymore, not for years, perhaps some still call it a plotter for nostalgia, I will file that on my winchester.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Findecanor on Sat, 20 February 2016, 07:03:48
Plotters is outdated?
I know a guy who uses large-format plotters every day at his day job at a construction firm.
A few years ago, Adam Savage (who is a major movie fan) drew a really really detailed map of Middle Earth and released the file for free. My friend used the plotter to render it instead of a large-format printer because it had better quality for line-art.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Perish on Sat, 20 February 2016, 07:45:23
Baud
Tandy
386
Sierra

I could go on but I might cry soon.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: SpAmRaY on Sat, 20 February 2016, 08:24:12
Winchesters
Plotters
Prestel
Luggable
RS232 / Serial mouse
BRS - Big Red Switch
Assembler
CS:IP

Plotters is outdated?

I supposed we are supposed to call them large format printers? :P

ps: whats up? :thumb:

Hey man :>

Do you call the large format printer a plotter, or is it actually still a proper pen plotter? No-one I know uses a pen plotter anymore, not for years, perhaps some still call it a plotter for nostalgia, I will file that on my winchester.
Oh it's all about the nostalgia. ;)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: keshley on Wed, 02 March 2016, 12:26:20
I'd like to counter some of these:

ISDN is still widely used, particularly in business.

RS232 also very common still.

Intel Iris is pretty new, and getting significantly better with each revision.

Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: jwaz on Wed, 02 March 2016, 12:32:59
What's with all the serial hate? Y'all are trippin', RS232 is still hella useful


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More
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Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Malenky on Wed, 02 March 2016, 12:49:24
The prefix "e".

Chip.

And the final one that annoys me is "livestream" instead of just "stream". I know they are semantically slightly different but the word "live" feels so obsolete whenever I see it used.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: HoffmanMyster on Wed, 02 March 2016, 12:55:36
What's with all the serial hate? Y'all are trippin', RS232 is still hella useful


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More
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Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: digi on Wed, 02 March 2016, 12:56:23
I'd like to counter some of these:

ISDN is still widely used, particularly in business.

RS232 also very common still.

Intel Iris is pretty new, and getting significantly better with each revision.



Who and where still uses ISDN? The DMV?? :)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: hashbaz on Wed, 02 March 2016, 13:02:40
The prefix "e".

Chip.

And the final one that annoys me is "livestream" instead of just "stream". I know they are semantically slightly different but the word "live" feels so obsolete whenever I see it used.

Agree on "e-", disagree on "live". How would you prefer people distinguish a stream that is a live feed from a stream of recorded media?

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Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: keshley on Wed, 02 March 2016, 13:08:08
I'd like to counter some of these:

ISDN is still widely used, particularly in business.

RS232 also very common still.

Intel Iris is pretty new, and getting significantly better with each revision.



Who and where still uses ISDN? The DMV?? :)

Think small offices in the middle of nowhere. Post offices. Banks. Anything that requires five-nines uptime. So tens of thousands of locations, across North America.
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: rowdy on Thu, 03 March 2016, 03:32:59
What's with all the serial hate? Y'all are trippin', RS232 is still hella useful


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Although I had to get a USB to serial adaptor for my server so I could use my Link terminal (MX blacks in its keyboard).
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: Findecanor on Thu, 03 March 2016, 08:40:11
Think small offices in the middle of nowhere. Post offices. Banks. Anything that requires five-nines uptime. So tens of thousands of locations, across North America.
Across the world! So US-centric you are ...
Anyway, I have seen recent job ads where banks are looking for programmers who know COBOL.

Intel Iris is pretty new, and getting significantly better with each revision.
While Intel Iris is very new, the word "Iris" as a brand-name for graphics hardware is not. And that was my point ... ;)
Title: Re: Outdated IT words or phrases
Post by: keshley on Thu, 03 March 2016, 12:57:43
Think small offices in the middle of nowhere. Post offices. Banks. Anything that requires five-nines uptime. So tens of thousands of locations, across North America.
Across the world! So US-centric you are ...
Anyway, I have seen recent job ads where banks are looking for programmers who know COBOL.

I have no experience on ISDN usage outside of North America, hence the disclaimer :)