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It started in the tech circles as a word to describe a remote blackbox service. Now it's become a buzzword and buzzwords sell magazines, seminars, conferences,
by chime 16y ago
It started in the tech circles as a word to describe a remote blackbox service. Now it's become a buzzword and buzzwords sell magazines, seminars, conferences, and contracts. Before cloud, it happened to e-commerce, WWW/Internet, multimedia, digital, robot, and automatic. Right now the meaning of 'cloud' has been blurred but within a few years, it will start to mean something concrete again. Give it a few years to find its niche definition.
- rakkhi 16y agoInteresting, I would have thought once gone it never returns. Any examples of words or phrases that have come back to a niche definition?
- chime 16y agoAll of the examples I gave: e-commerce, WWW/Internet, multimedia, digital, robot, and automatic. They started with a specific meaning, then became overused, and now are back to meaning something specific. Think about to 1995 and remember how multimedia was overused all the time, ever where. Now it means something specific once again.