Outdated IT words or phrases

[Waateva]

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?

[katushkin]

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.

[Pdub]

"Intranet"

Do people not use this word anymore? 

Some companies do.

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

[katushkin]

"Intranet"

Do people not use this word anymore? 

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.

[Pdub]

"Intranet"

Do people not use this word anymore? 

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?

[katushkin]

"Intranet"

Do people not use this word anymore? 

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.

[Krytone]

Shared Drive

[LXXXIX]

cyber

[katushkin]

Shared Drive

Lol... Still use it XD

[atectatifern]

instream data
EBCDIC
timesharing (but see "cloud")
terminal (but see "endpoint")
partitioned data set
COMMON block
baud rate
JOB card
finger
DD statement

[Krytone]

Shared Drive

Lol... Still use it XD

We just changed and now use sharepoint for additional security

[Snowdog993]

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.

[Jokrik]

Bus cable

[jaffers]

HDD
Windows
AMD CPU

[sean]

HDD
Windows
AMD CPU

Those burn like a 220w tdp

[Krytone]

Cobol

[animal]

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...

[Snowdog993]

ISA
EISA
VESA
RLL
MFM
Math Co-Processor (x87)

[animal]

ISA
EISA
VESA
RLL
MFM
Math Co-Processor (x87)

ESDI
ERROR 1701
SIMM (memory)

[Snowdog993]

ISA
EISA
VESA
RLL
MFM
Math Co-Processor (x87)

ESDI
ERROR 1701
SIMM (memory)

ERROR 1701!!!!!!  How could I forget that? 

[hashbaz]

AUTOEXEC.BAT
CONFIG.SYS
MEMMAKER.EXE

shareware

[Snowdog993]

AUTOEXEC.BAT
CONFIG.SYS
MEMMAKER.EXE

shareware

QEMM

[sth]

mouse balls

[hashbaz]

mouse balls

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

[rm-rf]

bulletin board system!

[Niomosy]

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.

[rowdy]

"bureau system" - all the kids call it "cloud services" these days.

[Lurch]

WINS
NT4
Citrix Metaframe

[baldgye]

winfs

[Lurch]

SCSI/scuzzi drives

[Findecanor]

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 ...

[baldgye]

ASL

[Lurch]

broadband

[keshley]

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.

[Computer-Lab in Basement]

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.

[Nai_Calus]

IPX/SPX and Netware in general.

[digi]

IPX/SPX and Netware in general.

Good one, AppleTalk = worst network protocol NA.

[HoffmanMyster]

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. 

[digi]

We use BBS tags on this forum all the time. 

[HoffmanMyster]

We use BBS tags on this forum all the time. 

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wat did i do  :(

[digi]

We use BBS tags on this forum all the time. 

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wat did i do  :(

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

[HoffmanMyster]

We use BBS tags on this forum all the time. 

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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??

* HoffmanMyster leaves this thread  :(

[digi]

We use BBS tags on this forum all the time. 

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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??

* HoffmanMyster leaves this thread  :(

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

[HoffmanMyster]

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

* HoffmanMyster 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.

[digi]

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

* HoffmanMyster 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..

[keshley]

We use BBS tags on this forum all the time. 

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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??

* HoffmanMyster 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.

[digi]

We use BBS tags on this forum all the time. 

Show Image

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??

* HoffmanMyster 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!!

[davkol]

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".

[animal]

ASL

Old enough/yes/anywhere

[animal]

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