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Can we stop calling things "modern"? We're talking about the web. A constantly changing, bubbling soup of protocols, software, ideas, and practices cobbled to
by bborud 5y ago
Can we stop calling things "modern"?
We're talking about the web. A constantly changing, bubbling soup of protocols, software, ideas, and practices cobbled together with duct-tape and spit. The word "modern" has no meaningful definition as it doesn't belong to any identifiable point along the timeline.
- afiori 5y agoHere modern is not description of the RFC iteself, modern web = today's web https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=modern https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=modern > In history, in the broadest sense, opposed to ancient and medieval, but often in more limited use. In Shakespeare, often with a sense of "every-day, ordinary, commonplace." Meaning "not antiquated or obsolete, in harmony with present ways" is by 1808.