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It's 1996 and they're tossing around the term "apps."
by mmphosis 11y ago
It's 1996 and they're tossing around the term "apps."
- SmellyGeekBoy 11y agoI seem to remember it being commonly used at the time (and earlier) as a shortened form of "applications". I don't think Jobs invented the term. :)
- digi_owl 11y agoIt was more common in the Apple camp however, and ended up "mainstream" with the iPhone.
- MCRed 11y agoSTEVE JOBS is using the term apps.
- MCRed 11y agoThat this factual comment is at -1 on Hacker News is my proudest achievement. No more proof of the anti-intellectualism of this site is needed. I'm pretty much done wasting time here wading thru 20 year olds mindlessly regurgitating cargo cultism.
- rconti 11y agoThis surprised me too. Of course I'm not surprised to learn that the term was used before it was popularized for iOS devices, but I'm VERY surprised to see it thrown about so liberally in this article. I really don't remember the term back then.
- rocky1138 11y agoThis is different than my experience. I distinctly remember many magazines offering their reviews of "killer apps."
- Anechoic 11y agoNeXTSTEP was using the ".app" extension for it's application bundles even back in those years, so it's not surprising to hear Jobs through around "apps" as a term.
- jusben1369 11y agoWell you had "application servers" for the web very shortly after the first web and mail servers. It was a super hot early category; Netscape bought Kiva I think and Sun bought NetDynamics (whose founder ended up running Sun at the end believe it or not) So it really was a common term back then. Initially it was "web apps" then it was just shortened.
- aembleton 11y agoRiscOS used the term apps circa 1991: http://www.houseofmabel.com/puters/RISCOS3/plain.gif http://www.houseofmabel.com/puters/RISCOS3/plain.gif
- JohnBooty 11y ago"Apps" has always been common personal computer industry jargon.